Jermell Charlo Quotes

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.

Just remember, that whatever your write about me, I was a man.

I'm just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that's what I want. I don't want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I've done.

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

I would rather be respected than elected.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

It is not the places which grace men, but men the places.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.

My legacy is so, so important to me.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'

I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Ability without honor is useless.

It's always great to add to your legacy.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.