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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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Love

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This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.
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Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
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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 want to be great, something special.
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I always expect unexpected challenges.
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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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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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 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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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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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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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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'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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