Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Careers, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 03, 2014

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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.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Hurt, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Believe, Rays, Sugar

  "The sugar in the sweet science" by Ron Flatter, www.espn.com.

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• I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Friendship, Wonder, Always There For Me

  Song: Someday, Album: 14:59, 1999

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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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

  Fighting, Play, Want

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 01, 2013

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• Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Skills, People

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jun 24, 2013

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• The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Tough Times, Levels, Shapes

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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.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Boxing, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Fighting, Important, Details

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Thinking, Air

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Football, Looks, Matter

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Shy, Quiet, Kind

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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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

  Able, Want, Fighter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Fighting, Sweat, Gains

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• I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Ghost Stories, Years, People

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Beautiful, Different, World

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• 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.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Winning, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Memories, Other Worlds, Waiting

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 16, 2012.

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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.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Fighting, Wife

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a third man in the ring, the referee. And that's why there has to be a very strong boxing commission that doesn't allow guys in the ring who don't belong there.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Strong, Men, Boxing

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I retired and came back in '97. Woo! I mean, come on! I don't know, man. A six-year layoff? That was crazy! My career was relatively short, whether you look at either its length in years or the number of fights I had. But it was brutal.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Crazy, Mean, Fighting

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Party, Drug, Problem

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