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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
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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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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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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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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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Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
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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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Spread your love and fly.
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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'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 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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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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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'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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