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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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Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
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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'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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Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
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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.
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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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Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
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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 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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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
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I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
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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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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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