Charles Barkley Quotes

I want to be undefeated for a while and end my career as one of the greatest of all-time.

There have been great champions in every generation.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

Mayweather was TBE - The Best Ever - at making money, but look at his highlights and look at mine. You can't pretend it's the same.

To say someone is the greatest, I just don't want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is one of the five or six best basketball players ever - he has seven championship rings. We know that not to be true.

I don't really celebrate victories. Kobe Bryant just kept playing. Michael Jordan just kept playing.

This is to LeBron James: If you want to be the best, get rid of the comparisons. Get rid of all the comparisons that are out there. That's what Michael Jordan did.

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that's all you've done, what have you got to show for it?

I don't believe being a Hall of Famer is based on individual accolades. I think winning has a lot to do with it. But perhaps more than that, you simply have to show that you are the best or among the best at what you do.

Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for.

I just want to do something big if I do anything at all.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.