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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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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 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'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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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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'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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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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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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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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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 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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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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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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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