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" I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Middle
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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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" In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian. "
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" I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved. "
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" It's hard to talk about yourself. "
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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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" 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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" They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far. "
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" I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing. Boxing was a way of expressing myself because I was not that outspoken. "
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" 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. "
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" I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. "
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" Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy. "
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" 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. "
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" I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy. "
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" I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. "
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" The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him. "
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" We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. "
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" It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it. "
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" I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject. "
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" Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence. "
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" I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. "
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" I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter. "
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