Quotes About Recognition

Jose Miguel Cotto may not have the resume of his brother, but he's a good fighter.

I'm a woman who's been in a man's sport since the age of 15, and to see people finally seeing what I saw right from the start, that female fighters are just as good 'pound-for-pound' as our male counterparts.

People got to understand, the fighters at the top are the fighters that are supposed to get paid because they're the guys that are bringing people in, bringing eyes to the TV, getting pay-per-views buys, and putting people in the seats. I mean, that's what it comes down to.

I'm just asking for a fair shake. You see a lot of these guys, a lot of these other champions making what they're making. I'm not trying to take anything away from them, but I feel like I'm one of the more exciting fighters under contract in the UFC.

I was one of the most popular fighters of my era.

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

If you're going to lose to somebody, losing to a guy like Brock Lesnar is not something that people will laugh at. Brock is arguably one of the top ten fighters on Earth.

You don't see a lot of fighters with no or little experience getting to be on the main card. I know that's an incredible honor, but at the same time, I know my worth, and I know my value.

When I was starting out the announcers would name everyone from the boxing board at ringside and by the time they got to the fighters they were almost an afterthought.

Some good fighters, they never won the belt, so it doesn't always show the whole picture. But it's an accomplishment.

If people are watching your fights and they care about what you do then that is success to me. As far as I'm concerned, I am one of the most successful fighters in the world.

I would love to be the undisputed welterweight champion of the world - that's always been the big dream - but outside of that, it really just makes me happy whenever somebody approaches me and they say, 'You are truly one of my favorite fighters in the sport of boxing today.'

I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.

Almost every single one of my fights was the fight of the night and the public was always interested in watching me compete.

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.

People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

You can have a fight card full of male fights, but yet when that women's fight comes on, that's what people watch. They're super excited by it.

Do I want everyone in Australia to know who I am? Absolutely. But the only way I can do that is by winning 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 want to get bigger and better fights, where people can recognize me as one of the better fighters in the world.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.