Quotes About Legacy

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I was named Rohan from the great West Indian cricketer Rohan Kanhai.

People named their kids after me!

Someone named Gold has never won gold, I'm told.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.

My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old.

Martin Luther King didn't know he was going to have a day named after him; Muhammad Ali didn't know he was going to be the people's champion. He was doing what he was doing because it was right.

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.

Institutes should be named after these legendary artistes. Some institute should be named after Lata Mangeshkar.

My mother named me for Marty Robbins.

Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.

I got a buddy named Brandon, who I boxed with for a long time, and I always think about him, or my daughter. If they look at something I've done, or they've seen me in the world and they don't recognize me, then I've done something wrong.

I'd rather fight named fighters and Fedor's somebody I've always wanted to fight and I think that it would be nice to be able to complete that kind of Who's Who of my resume.

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn't even put a record out yet.

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

There are so many artists that inspire me, it's honestly too many names to go through. I look up to people who've been in the game for years.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

People like Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Antonio Aguilar, Pedro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez - these are probably all names that many people don't know, but they are very popular in the music industry. They were people that I grew up listening to and aspiring to be like one day.

I thought I had joined one of the best clubs in the world, one of the biggest names around, and I had, though within a few years, it became clear that I had arrived at one of the worst moments in Liverpool's whole history.

When I retire, everyone is going to respect me for fighting the big names.