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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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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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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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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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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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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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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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
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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'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 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 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 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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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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