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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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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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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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 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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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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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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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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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 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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