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" I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner. "

Sugar Ray Leonard

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five. "

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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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" Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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 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. "

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" Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. "

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

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" I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail. "

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" 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. "

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" 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

" I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today. "

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" 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. "

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" I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight. "

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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 made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the right connection.' He knew boxing. Our relationship was so genuine, so sincere. "

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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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" When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second. "

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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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