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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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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
North Carolina
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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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than 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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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 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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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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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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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