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

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
Vividly
Fights
Detail
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Fighting
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Important

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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 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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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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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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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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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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My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.
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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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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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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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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 learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again, gave me the boost of confidence I would rely on for years to come.
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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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