Lennox Lewis Quotes

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

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

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

I have struggled hard to attain this fame.

Winning the title is an important detail to the story, but how you get there is much more important.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

It's not like everything was given to me. I had to really work hard for it and earn it.

I have worked long and hard to reach the level I have reached.

Any win feels great. It is hard to do.

There is nothing that comes without working for it.

I've been lucky. I've been in that top two or three for 11 years at two weight classes. It's been a crazy journey. It's been awesome.

Becoming heavyweight champion and holding the top title is on my bucket list. That spot is always getting tighter and tighter, but why not? A man can always dream.

It's really indescribable. All the hard work you put in and all the sacrifices.

Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned.

Me becoming the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world, it's a blessing.

The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that's it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into getting that medal. I'll always have the memories of that with me.