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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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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 remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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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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When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid it's my socializing weight.
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Spread your love and fly.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
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