Joe Calzaghe Quotes

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.

It would be a great thing for my legacy to get in the ring with an all-time great.

My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.

Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.

At the end of the day I'm still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I'll still be in the history books.

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

For me, it's about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That's what I am, and that's what I intend to do.

I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.

People are always going to say, 'Who's he beat? He's only beat Cowboy.' So what you're trying to tell me is Cowboy is a nobody? Cowboy will be remembered as one of the greatest fighters of all time. And I beat him in one round.

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

I know I will have to prove I am the best and make history in pro boxing, but I have no doubts about it, as I did in the amateurs, and I will do it as a pro.

I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.

Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy.

If I beat Canelo Alvarez at Madison Square Garden, I wake up the next day the king of New York and the new face of boxing.

At the end of the day, who at my age can say that they fought somebody that fought Muhammad Ali?

Manny Pacquiao has a whole country behind him. His journey and his rise, from a career standpoint, he was fortunate to have a lot of great opponents and rivalries for years. People forget about Barrera and Morales and those guys. That's how he built his legacy. Plus he had a country behind him.

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.

I will always wonder what might have been if I had faced Manny Pacquiao at my best. But there is no doubt in my mind that the Pacman will still go down as one of boxing's all-time greats.

I want to go down, like my hero Sugar Ray Robinson, in history.

I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived.

I respect Haye as a man and for being a former two-weight world champion. But not as a boxer.

So I plan to become one of the few to beat Manny Pacquiao and also become one of the legends.

Sugar Ray Robinson is my favorite boxer of all time. He is a middleweight. I saw him and liked him.