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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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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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 wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
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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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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I always expect unexpected challenges.
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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 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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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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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 lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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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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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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