Quotes About Legacy

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

They'll never be able to forget us.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'IÂ'm glad I did'?

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

i am not a millionaire son " but i make my son become the, millionaire son. by jostalin

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

The dead should not rule the living.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...