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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
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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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Spread your love and fly.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid it's my socializing weight.
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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 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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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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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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The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.
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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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'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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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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Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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