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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

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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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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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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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Spread your love and fly.
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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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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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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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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'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.
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I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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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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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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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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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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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