Quotes About Legacy

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

Shows have a tendency to end when they're over. 'The Dukes of Hazzard' has not ended for the fans, and it has not ended for the cast or the crew, and I'm very proud to be a part of that.

Everyone in my family has some kind of artistic tendency. My great grandmother was a jewelry designer, and her daughter was a ceramic tile muralist.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

I mean it's always good to document your history. 'Cos for some strange reason black history has a tendency of getting lost. So I think it's beautiful to have the ability to document it.

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.

Hopefully, I can keep growing as a player and have my number retired at Tennessee and in the NBA one day.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.

I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.

I was playing good tennis up until 100.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.

The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.

When his football and baseball careers ended, my dad became an accomplished marbles player. Then dad got really good at pitching horseshoes. And to show you how athletic our bloodlines really were, my mom was a wonderful tennis player.

First off, you can't replace Bobby Hatfield. I was just blessed to be able to sing with maybe the greatest singer in the world as a first tenor.