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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

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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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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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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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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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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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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 always expect unexpected challenges.
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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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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
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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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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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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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.
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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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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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