Quotes about Legacy

He who dies with no friends cannot make friends after death.

He who dies with no friends cannot make friends after death.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Life will always be forever But remember you will not So be remembered forever

Look, as a child growing up it occurred to me that I had everything I could have wanted: a roof over my head, education, food. All of it because my father provided... My way of giving back was being that invisible guy. Giving something back from a lifetime of taking.

The way I feel is I have to keep going out there and proving people. I don't want to be just a guy who has a couple of good years and then that's it.

You know, when you've idolized something, you put it on a shelf, lift it up, and when King Day comes out, you pull it out and show it. Or when Black History Month comes out, you show it, or when April 4th or other times, you show it. But, you see, Dad wouldn't want us to idolize.

I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

We're trying to keep the 'foot' in 'football.'

People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.

I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, 'He's not as good as he used to be.'

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral before I die.