Quotes About Legacy

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

The only greatness for man is immortality.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.