Joseph Benavidez Quotes

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

I don't want to be the country's best-kept boxing secret. I want to cross over from being a boxer on the back pages to the front pages and become the big superstar I deserve to be.

I've made my stamp on the earth. My name will go down in history, and if I never want to work again, I don't have to.

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.

If, in 10 years, or 20 or 30 years, you sit down with your friends and talk about boxing, you need to remember my name.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

I want the world to know me. I want to go down in history.

Yeah, I think about the Hall of Fame.