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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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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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 was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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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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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 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 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 fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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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 remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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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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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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I learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again, gave me the boost of confidence I would rely on for years to come.
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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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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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I want to be great, something special.
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