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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
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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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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.
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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 enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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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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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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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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I want to be great, something special.
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