Dan Hill Quotes

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

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

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.

No matter what happens, I'll never be the greatest cruiserweight. That title belongs to Holyfield.

I'm a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it's amazing.

After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.

I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.

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

Tyson Fury and I go back. He won the amateur championships the same year I did.

For me, the big target is to get into the Hall of Fame, but I'd like to win the heavyweight title first.

Where I've come from and my background, to fight at Madison Square Garden against the biggest name in boxing is unbelievable.

Every fighter, when they box, wants to leave a mark in their sport, or a legacy, and I managed to do that beyond my wildest dreams.

When I was about 12, I realised I wasn't going to make it as a top footballer, but I won my first British ABA title at 13. From then on, I wanted to be a world champion.

I feel like me fighting Pacquiao and beating him would boost my career higher than its ever gonna go.

The world title in a second weight division and a win in America is just the icing on the cake of my career.

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

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.

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.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

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.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year.

When I first went into a boxing gym I watched Kovalev fight on TV and now my name is spoken about in the same light as him, now I'm fighting him.

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.