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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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We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
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I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.
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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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While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.
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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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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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This kid [Janks Morton, Jr.] was so special, although he's not a kid anymore, obviously, but he was there from day one of my rise through boxing. You know how the years go by and then, when you stop to reflect, you realize that someone was a part of your whole evolution as an individual? That's what I share with Junior.
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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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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 fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
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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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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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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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 want to be great, something special.
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