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I always expect unexpected challenges.

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
Unexpected
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Challenges
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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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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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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Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
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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 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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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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Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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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Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
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I want to be great, something special.
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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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