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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
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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'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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