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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
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When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, What do you want to be? I think he was expecting me to say, A champion. I said, I want to be special. I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids
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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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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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It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
Sugar Ray Leonard
We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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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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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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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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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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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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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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.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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.
Sugar Ray Leonard
No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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I want to be great, something special.
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