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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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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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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 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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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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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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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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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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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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'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 fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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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 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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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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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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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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