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I want to be great, something special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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 always expect unexpected challenges.
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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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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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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself
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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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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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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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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