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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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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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Spread your love and fly.
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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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I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
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When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.
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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.
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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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Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
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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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I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself
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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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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 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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