Quotes About Legacy

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

You either make history or you don't.

Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.

I look at my elders as the leaders.

We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

I think everybody's got a little Elvis in them.

Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

At a club like City, you cannot forget about the kids that have come through and are still emerging from the academy. We can't forget about them and we should always keep that in mind with an eye to the future.

Much respect to Eminem - he's the greatest.

I have my fashion empire to build.

I want to live my life on full. I want to die empty, whatever that means - giving myself to my three kids now, giving myself to love or a relationship, giving myself to my career, devoting myself to being a healthy person. I have to give my full self to something, because that's what makes me feel alive.

We are not supposed to die until we are empty.

I look up to my father, he's done what he's done, and I want to emulate his achievements and become as successful as he was. But I have to prove myself to the boxing community and to myself - that's the most important thing.

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

Curt Hawkins gave me the Big Ending. That's been my finish for 12 years because of him.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

But I think it's important that things endure.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

At the end of the day, our work is what endures.

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.