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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
North Carolina
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No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
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I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
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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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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
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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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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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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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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'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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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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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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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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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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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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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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