Quotes About Legacy

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

Too many fighters stay in the game for too long. They stay because it's awfully hard to walk away from the roar of the crowd. Really hard. You live for that and so you stay too long. And you might have a wife and kids to feed. So you keep fighting because you don't know how to do anything else.

A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

I just don't want to be a champion; I want to be one of the best fighters there ever was.

I am not like most fighters. I want to be on the list of the greatest, best boxers in history.

There are a lot of fighters, when I fight them, they stay hit forever and never fight again.

I want to be considered one of the greatest fighters ever.

I want people to talk about me in five, 10 years, 20 years, that I was one of the best female MMA fighters, that I was one of the best UFC champions in the world back in the day. This is what I want.

Gracie is not a family, it's a factory of fighters.

My mother belongs to a family of freedom fighters.

The only fighters to beat Manny Pacquiao have become legends themselves.

As long as I keep doing what I'm doing, I'll get the fights I need and get the legacy that I always dreamed of.

Legacy is really important to me. It's more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy.

I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.

Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.

I don't want to be one of those guys who fights until they're 38, 40 years old. I don't want to put my wife through that, and I don't want to put my kids through that.

I need those meaningful fights, the fights that everyone wants to see. That would help my legacy a long way.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

If I look forward to bigger fights, than the biggest fight for me is Manny Pacquiao.

I have had 100 fights and I am very proud.

After 99 fights, I don't fight for the passion of boxing.

I think 113 fights are really enough.

Whenever my parents got married, my dad had a mullet. Me and my dad are very similar-type people with the way we look and the way we act, and I figured if he could get away with it when he was around 25, then I could try to do the same thing.

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.