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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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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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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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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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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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
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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 always expect unexpected challenges.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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