Quotes About Legacy

If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.

I feel like nowadays it's almost become a corny thing to say that you want to be a role model or do something good for the world, but the artists I've looked up to - like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Prince - were about something.

We should ensure to teach the next generation something good. We have such rich literature and history. Why can't we make better stories?

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.

I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and make them palatable that make money.

Even if you want to try out something new, that should not be done without losing your roots.

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

Sometimes, something special doesn't live forever. But it can always be forever as long as the fans keep it going.

It felt great knowing that I got to help the winningest class in Villanova history, to be able to be a part of that. It's something special.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I would like to have an assortment of words, but what can I say about Leo? He is breaking all the records, and those he will still beat. He makes the public always expect something special from him, and he delivers it.

I want to be remembered as a Liverpool player who was part of something special.

To play at Old Trafford in a Manchester shirt I think is something special.

As German players we have something special inside us, because of our football history. We know we have to win, it is what is expected, so we have a good focus.

When I end my career, I don't need to win eight championships, I'd rather have done something special.

You see guys who are on elite teams. I don't want to do that. I want to create something special here in Charlotte, something that we have never had here before. I want to create some consistency.

After cricket I'd love to build a family, I'd love to get close to someone and have kids, see them evolve into something special.

I was always taught that no matter where you are, you leave your fingerprints on that city and an impression on children and parents. That's what kind of drives me, to see the kids look up to you and want to be like you - just be something special.

Man United has always had a unique aura about it, and when you watch them play everyone knows it's something special.

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!