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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
Sports
Stubborn
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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Spread your love and fly.
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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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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.
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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 wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
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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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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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