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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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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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I always expect unexpected challenges.
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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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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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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Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
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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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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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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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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 the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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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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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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