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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
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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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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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I want to be great, something special.
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I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
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Spread your love and fly.
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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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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'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 found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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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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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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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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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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I always expect unexpected challenges.
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