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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
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Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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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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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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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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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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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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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'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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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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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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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