Jose Reyes Quotes

I want to retire, when it's all said and done, as one of the greats.

If I retire from this league and I haven't won at least one championship, I'll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.

When I end my career, I don't need to win eight championships, I'd rather have done something special.

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

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've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

I want that fifth championship. If that does not present itself, then I'm closer to retirement.

I don't think I was a year too late or a year too early in retiring. If the Seahawks had been in the playoffs a year later, I might have had some regrets.

That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me if I had the worst career stats in N.B.A. history as long as I got my 'ships. The 'ships, it shuts everything up.

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

I want to retire as champion, and I will make that happen.

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.

I won 11 titles but yeah, no Slam. Am I proud? Yes. Am I also disappointed? Yes. But a couple of times I was unlucky.

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.

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.

You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that's all you've done, what have you got to show for it?

I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

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

Being able to score touchdowns and win games is a way to get a platform. But, ultimately, if that's what you do in your life, and that's what your life is based on, I don't know - I feel like that's a little bit of a meaningless life.

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That's it.