Joseph Benavidez Quotes

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

I'm blessed to have a little bit of success in football.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

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

I ended up staying 10 years in Boston. It was nine as GM but 10 years there. That seemed about right: long enough to try to make a difference and try to contribute to winning teams and some championships.

In my career, if you follow my career and watched everything that I've ever done from the time I was in high school to where I'm at now, I've always been able to reach the pinnacle. In football, I was able to win championships and go to bowl games in college, be an All-American linebacker, and there were a lot of things I was able to accomplish.

'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

I won four world titles, got beat twice - but avenged one of those losses - and the other loss was on points to someone who was unbeaten in Andre Ward. I had a comfortable, successful career and it wasn't through natural ability but through dedication and hard work.

Pep Guardiola is a very ambitious manager; that's a reason why he has been able to win all the trophies he has won in his career.

Two-time world champion - that's my goal.

It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.

What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.