“I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.”
Jake LaMotta (1922–2017) American boxer
Jake http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016439.html
“When I think of the people who have been there, and the people I grew up admiring - the likes of Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard… it's just incredible that I'm in the same sort of club.”
After being inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4160837.stm
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