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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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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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I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself
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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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Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
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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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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 was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
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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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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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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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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 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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Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.
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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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