Quotes About Legacy

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I would say I get most of the musicality from my mum - and my dad, but I think my dad is the poet, you know.

I'm in this sport to be the champion. I want to be a great champion and go down in history for it.

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

I left my sport when I knew I had nothing more to give.

Every sport has a 'guy' that personifies what the sport is about and almost creates what the sport is on his own.

I hope to be able to give my contribution to ensure that football remains the number one sport in the world.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

My grandfather was a big sports fan and so was my mom.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.