Quotes About Legacy

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.

People often speak about legacy. And when they mention our legacy, I sure hope they don't only mention football.

When your name gets mentioned with the great guys that played this game in the past, that's very big.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

To be able to be mentioned with guys like Emmitt, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin and my man LaDainian Tomlinson, it's a blessing.

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

I want to be great, I want to be mentioned with the best to ever play the game.

It's an honor to be mentioned with a guy like Walter Payton.

It's such a great honor to be mentioned along The Beatles.

I don't think my father was my mentor.

As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.

I'm humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.

I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.

If anything, I'd say my family was entrepreneurial - my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn't have this one mentor that was super successful.

Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

Freddie Mercury said years later that he got the idea for 'We Will Rock You' from 'Bits and Pieces.' I never knew that.

Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young.

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.