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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
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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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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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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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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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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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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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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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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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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 remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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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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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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