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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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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I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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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 I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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 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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
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My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.
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When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid it's my socializing weight.
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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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I want to be great, something special.
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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 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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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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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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