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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
Lays
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Wonder
Around
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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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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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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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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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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'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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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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I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
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