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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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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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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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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Spread your love and fly.
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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I always expect unexpected challenges.
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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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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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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 fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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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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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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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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