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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
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Ray Charles Leonard
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I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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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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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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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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'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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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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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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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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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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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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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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