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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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
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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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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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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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Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
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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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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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