“Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.”

American former professional boxer

Sugar Ray Leonard is an American former professional boxer. Born in 1956, he competed from 1976 to 1997 and became one of the best-known fighters of his era. He also won a light welterweight gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Leonard captured world titles in five weight classes, the lineal championship in three, and the undisputed welterweight championship. He was also part of the 1980s group known as the Four Kings, alongside Roberto Durán, Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler, and he was the only one to defeat the other three.