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Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, What do you want to be? I think he was expecting me to say, A champion. I said, I want to be special. I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids
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Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it your career is over.
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To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
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While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.
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When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.
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