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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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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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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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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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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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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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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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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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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 always expect unexpected challenges.
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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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I want to be great, something special.
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Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
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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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