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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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 was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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'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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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'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
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