Thon Maker Quotes

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

I want to be able to be looked back on and know that he was one of the greats in the game.

Winning the World Series, winning the MVP, you feel like you have everything.

As a player you get to meet Hall of Fame members and now to have my name in the same sentence makes me speechless.

Part of me feels it's better we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Yeah, I think about the Hall of Fame.

People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get in there, you're a Hall of Famer. It doesn't matter if you get in on the first, second or third ballot. It's the same thing.

I'm sure personal accolades are nice and you appreciate them very much. But it's about winning Cups and winning Olympics and winning World Cups and that kind of thing.

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.

You know, it's funny: Over my career, I didn't win as much as I hoped, but I can look like Flavor Flav if I want to put on all my rings that I've won for different reasons.

I always believed I would be in the Hall of Fame when my career came to an end. I just didn't know when.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

It is hard to categorise every accolade you have won. Getting into the Hall of Fame is great. It is fantastic to be recognised by your own country. To be part of the history of our national game is simply humbling.

It's just a great honor to even be associated with the Hall of Fame and get in. If I eventually do make it, it will be a great honor, and I don't care if it's the first or second time because it's an honor for anyone to make the Hall of Fame.

Everybody's goal in the NBA is to win a Championship - that's the ultimate.

It means a lot to notch my name in the sport and have my name among some of the greats.

When your name gets mentioned with the great guys that played this game in the past, that's very big.

My ultimate goal was always that I want to be known as one of the greatest of all time. The first step was obviously to be UFC champion.

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.

I would rather be here in the Philly Hall of Fame than the NBA Hall of Fame.