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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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
North Carolina
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I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.
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My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.
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Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
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I learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again, gave me the boost of confidence I would rely on for years to come.
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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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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You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.
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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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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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I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.
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When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid it's my socializing weight.
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Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
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