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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
Dream
Attaining
Benefit
Benefits
Success
Helping
Others

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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 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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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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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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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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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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.
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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
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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 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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While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.
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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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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