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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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 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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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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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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 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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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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I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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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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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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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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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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