Quotes About Legacy

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

The American Dream Dusty Rhodes, rest his soul, he was hard as hell on me. He was tougher on me than anybody.

Without a doubt, one of the toughest football players to ever play the game is Tom Brady.

I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

I just want to be remembered as one of the toughest champions with his own attitude.

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.

I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

My dad was one of the reasons I kept Simply Red going so long. I was brought up to stick at things. I was the only songwriter in Simply Red, so I could have toured under my own banner. But I'd developed the name, so I stuck with it.

I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

I don't like when I see bands that are just a memory of what they used to be, and there's a few out there that I've seen recently that are still touring... I'm not gonna name them, but some of the members can barely play their parts, and then they have a lot of other members that weren't even originally in the band.

The tourism ministry may not have been the greatest portfolio, but no one can say that 'Chiranjeevi left without doing anything'. I have left my mark, as promised.