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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Ray Charles Leonard
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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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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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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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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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 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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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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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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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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Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
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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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