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" 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. "

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" Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are. "

" Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound. "

" 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. "

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" The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor. "

Sugar Ray Leonard

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You

" I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off. "

" You just don't heal that easy unless you're young. "

" You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie. "

" 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. "

" Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing. "

" Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special. "

" I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast. "

" Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time. "

" For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves on, after about six months, boxing was my life. "

" Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy. "

" 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. "

" When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys. "

" There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique. "

" Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive. "

" I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother. "

" You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too. "

" I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself. "

" When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much. "

" I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. "

" 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. "

" 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

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Parents

" For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved. "

" 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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Muhammad Ali

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