"You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing."

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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