Mats Hummels Quotes

If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

I just felt I had done enough in the sport to put my stamp on boxing.

I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.

I just want to finish my career the right way - some winning and some successful years.

When I retire, I'm going to go home and say, 'I played for what?' You know, if I don't win anything.

We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.

It's always great to add to your legacy.

After the smoke clears, I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.

I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.

When you look back at your body of work, no matter what your career path, by the time you hang 'em up, if you can say, 'This place is in better shape than when I started,' then you did good.

Just to be, overall, I want to be one of the greats: overall, someone that leaves a good mark, someone everybody always remember.

You know that if you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because when I retire from football, I want to sit down and think I did something good - I won this title, and I won this title. People will talk about what you have won, and that is the most important thing in football.

It's amazing because I've done so many of these things I've always wanted to do - almost everything - in my career.

When you retire, people don't look at how good you became. They look at what you've won. We remember the winners.

I don't miss basketball because I've already got in my mind that I did what I had to do for 17 years. I think I'm satisfied with what I did.

There's not much point breaking records if, in the end, it doesn't mean anything.

When I'm sat at 45 and retired, I want to look back and see what I've done and that I've played games rather than having come to the end of my career and tailed off.

Looking back and thinking about the past and what I've done makes no sense - I'd like to keep achieving things. Then, when I retire, I will appreciate everything that's happened and everything I've achieved.

I was extremely lucky with my career and I want to finish on a high.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.