Sporting Legacy Quotes

It's fun to look over there and see a guy with as a great stature as John Elway. It's really cool that he went to one of my games.

I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.

I don't want to be resentful to the sport. I want to be able to leave the sport on a high note.

At Barca, we always have an obligation to win and to do it in style for our fans in the stadiums and around the world.

I would hope people remember the playing days first, and not the coaching years.

Boxing has been good to me and I believe I have been good for boxing.

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.

I checked on the Internet this morning, and I realized that with five individual world titles, I was level with my elders Florian Rousseau and Arnaud Tournant, who were the sprint leaders in France when I started at the French Institute of Sports and taught me everything. I had the chance to overtake them, and I did it.

There's some great, great players that have played this game, in all sports, that haven't won a championship.

We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there's been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that's why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.

Anybody I have spoken to who has held a record says 'Records are meant to be broken.' They get excited when somebody has an opportunity to break one of their records and take the sport even further.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Obviously, I've been very fortunate to be able to work for a Hall of Famer, to be able to coach a lot of Hall of Famers.

I won my first Champions League in 1989, and I won my last one 18 years later.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

Arsenal will always come first. You name them - Henry, Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp. People saw these stars shine, and they thought: 'Is there life after Vieira, Pires or Bergkamp?'. But look at what happens here. At Arsenal, you always see young, fresh talent grow into the same role as those stars who have left. Other players have replaced them.

I had to follow Bobby Robson at Barcelona. He had won three titles.

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

It's an honour to be able to wear the No.5 jersey and that Carles Puyol thought of me to inherit it.

I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.