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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. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Kiss
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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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" No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran. "
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" Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing. "
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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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" 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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" I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. "
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" 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. "
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" I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were. "
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" I was just such a quiet kid. 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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" Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions. "
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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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" Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger. "
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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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" You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ. "
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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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