Quotes About Legacy

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out.

You can't write off Prakash Mehra and Manmohan Desai hits.

Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.

I would hate to go out as a legend on tour just playing all the back hits.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

I do not want to be a player who is known for hitting those 20-odd runs.

I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

For me, my hockey career is all about the Devils.

My only ultimate aim is to bring back the lost glory of Indian hockey.

India is known for hockey all over the world.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

The things that we did in Detroit will never be done again. Our record of holding seven teams under 70 points will never be done again.

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.

Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

Anyone that holds a championship you are on a list of a very few people that have had that special honor, and it is really incredible to say that no matter what you say about my wrestling career I was a World Heavyweight Champion and you can't take that away from me.

Even after the first three series, I'm sure I would've been known all my life as James Herriot. I was concerned that I would dig the hole deeper, and I'm sure that's what I've done. I'm sure of it.

When I retire, my CV might have a few holes, things I haven't achieved that I would have felt I needed to do, but I won't know if I did need to do them until I retire.

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

I hope maybe I'll be in a Christmas movie that becomes part of someone's holiday tradition.

Eddie Cochran - I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.