Joseph Benavidez Quotes

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

I've made my stamp on the earth. My name will go down in history, and if I never want to work again, I don't have to.

Legacy is really important to me. It's more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

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 look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.

I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that's going to be the most valuable for my career.

Toward the end of my career, people started talking Hall of Fame, but still, you don't ever think you're going to end up there.

I want to make a serious legacy.

I want to put my name in history. I love history.

I want to build a legacy.

I want my kids to be proud of me.