Quotes About Legacy

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's been a congressman for many years, and he's running again.

I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.

I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

I feel privileged to play for Manchester United. It is something, when I'm old, I will always be proud of.

It's an honour for me to wear the Inter shirt. To have been involved in so many important moments that all of us and our fans will keep in our hearts and minds forever, I feel privileged.

I do think it's really tough being super-rich, really hard-working and wanting to get some sort of immortality by passing on the organisation to your kids. But then looking at your kids and thinking, 'Oh, they're just these privileged people who haven't had to struggle. Am I really going to just give it all to them?'

Betty White is so old that on her first game show ever, the prize was fire.

My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.

I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug - who has been aptly described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time - for nearly 50 years.

Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt - they just fall off. I'm not one of those guys. The belt isn't my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.

Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

I know I will have to prove I am the best and make history in pro boxing, but I have no doubts about it, as I did in the amateurs, and I will do it as a pro.

In my pro and amateur fights I've always mentioned Mexico.

Frankly, I've had the opportunity to get certain accolades, make it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other stuff that doesn't matter. I'm looking only on championship probability. I just feel like I haven't accomplished much unless I can somehow get that done.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.

I've had my processes and opportunities with the Mexican national team. I played a lot of international matches for my country and now I think it's time to give the younger players and generation a chance.

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.