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I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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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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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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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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They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
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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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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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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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