Quotes About Legacy

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.

By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.

Teaching is in my blood.

The King Center in Atlanta specializes in educating people about my father's life, work and teachings, and we have resources and programs available for that purpose.

We should all realize where we have come from our learnings and teachings and set examples for future generations.

I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teachings, and the older I am getting, the more I am feeling it.

AC Milan will always be a great team.

Diouf was one of the best players in the whole history of Senegal. He did a lot for the national team, and everybody knows and respects him for that.

Am I here because of my last name? To a degree. But I would ask people to judge me and my executive team on what we accomplish.

As a player, I just want to be remembered as a good teammate, that's it.

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate.

Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

My main focus was to be a great teammate. That's all I hoped to accomplish. I don't really care about legacies.

I will miss Messi so much. He's a great teammate, a great guy. We've lived a lot of things together, a lot of matches, a lot of goals. He knows me well.

I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it's being a good teammate, having the respect of my teammates, having the respect of the coaches and players. That's important to me.

I told our players at Butler, 'I hate to break it to you, but you aren't playing beyond here. That's reality. So why are you so concerned with yourself?' It's a hard lesson, but I told them, 'How you handle your role on this team will be remembered by your coaches and your teammates. It will define you.'

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

I feel like the impact that you leave on others and your teammates and everybody around you is what's most important.

The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.

I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.