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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
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
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Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
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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'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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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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Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
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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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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
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It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
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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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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.
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It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
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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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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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Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
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Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
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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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