Boxing Fame Quotes

The only thing that me and Muhammad Ali have in common is that we are both Olympic gold medalists and both very outspoken.

It's got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.

I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.

I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.

Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn't have the star power Oscar has.

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.

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'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of 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.

It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.

As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.

Mike Tyson has become larger than life.

I didn't expect one day I become world champion in the United States. I'm very proud to be together with boxing legends. It's a dream to be in with Muhammad Ali.

I don't care about no boxing legacy. I don't care where they put me on the list of all-time greats - let them put me at the bottom.

The Klitschkos don't care about being great fighters, whereas I do. They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight.

You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world.

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

I want to be a champion. I want to be a long-reigning featherweight champion. I want to be known in the history books: my name everywhere as a champion. And then, later on in my career, when I start getting good, then I can start doing the exhibition matches for money and stuff.

Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn’t already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?

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

The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.

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.

Laila Ali is boxing's real-life million-dollar baby.

America is the mecca of boxing, and they've had some great champions here. It's good to establish your skills and let people know what you're about in the States.

From the age of seven, I was destined to be a legend, to be the world's most popular fighter.