Quotes about Legacy

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The Lord specifically told me that He has appointed and anointed Daniel Kolenda as my successor.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Someone pointed out that Dick Enberg and Curt Gowdy are the only two ever to call a Super Bowl and a Final Four. So I'll be the third. I get a kick out of putting my name in the same sentence as those other two giants.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.