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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.
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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Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
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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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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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 tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
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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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I want to be great, something special.
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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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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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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Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
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I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
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