Vasyl Lomachenko Quotes

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

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.

I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.

My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.

I'm trying to be the best in the world and get that pound-for-pound spot and I'm trying to get paid.

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

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

No disrespect to Ugas. He's a great fighter, and he's ranked in the IBF, so I'm gonna have to fight him. But, you know, I'm looking to build my legacy and me beating Ugas is not gonna get me anywhere.

Floyd Mayweather said it, perfect boxing career, undefeated, but he says that in life there's balance. He might have the perfect boxing career, but elsewhere there's loss.

Shawn Porter is a good fighter, but he hasn't accomplished nearly as much as Danny Garcia has accomplished or beat the fighters who he has beat.

I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.

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.

Kostya Tszyu was the best payday of my career to that point, even though I thought it should have been better.

I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.

I haven't had the recognition I deserve. You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs. I've won against more unbeaten fighters than any of them, had more exciting fights.

I've fought at such a high level I couldn't have people look at me and say, 'well, he's just fought someone to knock them over.'

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

Once I have beaten Mormeck, I don't feel there'll be anything left to prove. After winning the world title, I will be recognised as the No. 1 cruiserweight in the world.

I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.

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

I do think I'm the best lightweight in the world.

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

I still respect Anthony Joshua and I'm a big fan of what he did in boxing.

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

I want to be the first champion of the 125-pound division.