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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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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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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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I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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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.
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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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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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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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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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