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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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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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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 lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
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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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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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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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'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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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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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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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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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 remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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Spread your love and fly.
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