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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. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Will
Ring
Retire
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" To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Me
Teacher
Homework
" The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever be anything better. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Experience
Better
You
" I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to sweat and get all those toxins out of my system. I thoroughly enjoy it. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Weather
Trees
Enjoy
" If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Networks
Talent
Made
" They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Stubborn
Say
Wife
" I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Ray
Boxing
Personality
" Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Career
Start
Resume
" I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Proud
Me
Man
" I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about current events and success stories from the Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation to help fight diabetes and child obesity. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Fight
Success
I Am
" I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Like
Bruce
Wanted
" I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
You
Me
Parents
" I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Me
Train
Sometimes
" I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Feel
Think
Fear
" Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Own
My Own
Belief
" I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Push
World
Chance
" I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Run
Always
Boxing
" Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Never
Ali
Except
" The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Him
Stop
You
" At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Go
Run
School
" Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Mom
Team
Time
" I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Moving
School
Boxing
" My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Best
World
Memory
" Boxing will always be in my life. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Life
Boxing
Always
" Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Quiet
Family
Kind
" I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Easy
Boxing
Unexpected
" I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Proud
My Life
Lot
" Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Group
Run
Time
" Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Looking Back
Mountain
Looking
" Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Life
Goals
Focus
" I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
My Life
Life
Loved