Quotes About Legacy

There have been great champions in every generation.

A guy like Anderson Silva is one the greatest champions we've had.

I just want to leave a mark on the sport of boxing so people talk about me like they talk about the other great champions before me. That's my goal before I retire.

I'm capitalizing on a lot of mistakes that champions made before me. I hear a lot of guys say if they were champion again they would do things differently and respect people more. I plan to do that while I'm still champion.

To become world champions in our country would be with us to the end of our lives.

It's not easy playing against Barcelona in the Champions League. They are a club with a lot of history.

You don't want to play one year in the Champions' League and go out. You don't then establish yourself as a big club.

The Champions League is worth more and allows you to write a page in football's history.

If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.

I think both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are establishing legacies just by how long they've maintained their championship runs. I think both of them still have a lot left in their careers.

Money and all that stuff doesn't equal a ring, because you'll always be in the books as winning a championship and being on one of the best teams ever to play the game.

One thing I wanted when I left was to make this Divas Championship mean something a little bit more than what it did.

There's some great, great players that have played this game, in all sports, that haven't won a championship.

If I retire from this league and I haven't won at least one championship, I'll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.

A lot of teams have won one state championship, but not many teams can say they went back-to-back.

I knew that Errol Spence Jr. was going to be my last fight. I knew that in 2017 when he won his championship fight. But after we fought, I felt that there was something else, and that something else was Terence Crawford.

I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.

I want to leave a great legacy behind me and continue to win major championships.

I think about all the time how I'll be able to say that during my career, I played with the greatest players of my era. Hopefully, I'll be able to say I won championships with those players.

My dad was a midfielder, like I am, and he was good, too. When I saw him playing as I got older, I could see he really knew how to play. He didn't have all the chances to grow and have a great career that I got, but he did what he could.

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion, she changed culture, and she changed how people dress.

I didn't change the world.

Ronaldinho changed everything for me.