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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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Ray Charles Leonard
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I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.
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To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.
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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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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
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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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It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.
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I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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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.
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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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Spread your love and fly.
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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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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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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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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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I always expect unexpected challenges.
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