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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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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
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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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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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
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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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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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To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.
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