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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 was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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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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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'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 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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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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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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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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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 was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
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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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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 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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It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
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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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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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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 lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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