Quotes About Legacy

If I could be half of what Mike Sweeney was, I'll be happy with it.

You got to go back and look at it, what happened when Mike Singletary retired? What happened to the Bears for a while? They were trying to find that next guy. That was the hard thing was, they were they were trying to find that next guy.

I was Mike Schmidt without any of the power.

It would have been a shame not to reach 300 appearances with Milan, after 12 years as a Rossonero and 126 goals.

The DNA of AC Milan is something I have inside me.

After all the good years in the kit, I hope to close my career with Milan.

I want to end my career at Milan.

AC Milan would never have been the same club without Paolo Maldini or Franco Baresi and they certainly would have never had the same amount of success.

My dream is to stay at AC Milan for my entire career.

I have to say that clubs like Piacenza, Atalanta, and Parma always call me, they make me feel important. Probably they also appreciated me as a man, not just as a player. But after everything I've experienced with the Rossoneri's shirt, I think it's right that I end my career at Milan.

I've always loved the club. Kaka was my role model when I was young, and my aim now is to go down in Milan history.

I have spent half of my career at Milan.

Everyone knows that Milan is a historic team: they've won seven Champions Leagues; they've had a lot of strong players and a lot of Ballons d'Or.

The Champions League without Milan is not the Champions League.

Milan are like my family; I have done some good and some less good things during my career, but the club have always helped me so much.

I chose Milan for many reasons. It is a great club and the team is made of an historic group of players.

I grew up watching the great Milan teams with the Dutch players.

I hope to do with Milan what Pirlo did with Juve.

Kaka, he made history with Milan and if he is loved so much it means he did well.

What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?'

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.