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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
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Wonder
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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 tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
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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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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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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 want to be great, something special.
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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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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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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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'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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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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Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it your career is over.
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I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
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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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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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