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The Sweet Life of Sugar Ray
How the champion of five weight classes, Sugar Ray Leonard, found success outside the boxing ring
Michael Marsh
From the Print Edition:
Dennis Haysbert, Nov/Dec 2006
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When Leonard is away from the ring, he spends time on the golf course. It's the place where he enjoys his cigars most. "I play 18 lousy holes and then I smoke a great cigar," he says, laughing.
Leonard enjoys a wide variety of smokes, including Fuente Fuente OpusX and Cuban cigars. "It's all about camaraderie for me," he says, listing his friends, brothers and sons, Ray Jr. and Jarrell, as regular smoking buddies. "It has to do with my boys and hanging out." But there's also a more personal side to smoking a cigar. "I start reminiscing about life and how wonderful things are," he says. "Cigars let me take in life and digest it."
So what does the future hold in store for Sugar Ray Leonard?
"Where I am in my life right now, there's something bigger and better," he says, puffing on an OpusX. "I just feel like I'm going to accomplish something outside of sports that affects people in a good way. What that is, I don't know, but the man upstairs will tell me."
No matter what it is, if Leonard takes the same approach that he's taken in life, both in and out of boxing, there's little doubt he'll be champion once again.
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