Quotes About Legacy

The Republic of Texas is no more.

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George W. Bush helped run his father's presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. But in his winning campaign for governor of Texas, he never mentioned his father's name in any of his campaign commercials.

When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football.

The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

Travis Scott's dad was one of my OGs when I was a kid in Texas. Obviously Travis was nonexistent yet because his father wasn't even married back then.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

Baylor has stood here before the state of Texas was even formed. It will be here for a long time. It hit a rough time, but this is what Baylor stands for. It stands for excellence and leadership and service and a spiritual mission.

When you're the head coach at Texas and you're winning a lot of games, you don't have to have new ideas, you don't have to change and you really don't doubt that much.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

I would like to be the kind of coach who gets text messages and phone calls from players years after I coach them, because we had something that is bigger than just being on the floor.

The people of this country remember me. I may have started dyeing my beard, but I am recognized at airports, railway stations - anywhere. School textbooks have chapters on me, and somehow the sobriquet 'The Flying Sikh' has endured in people's memory.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

We already have our history with Joanna in Muay Thai and we can start our history in MMA.

100 Muay Thai, boxing, and kickboxing fights. Six times world Muay Thai champion, five times European Muay Thai champion, very dominant UFC champion for three years. I know my legacy. They can say whatever they want to, but I'm huge.

Dad hails from the royal family of Tripura, Kooch Bihar and Baroda and is a great chef. Be it Nepalese, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese, Mughlai, Punjabi or Thai cuisine, he knows the nuances of them all.

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

I was blessed and lucky to have been given opportunity. I really thank my dad, Joe Ben Hudgens, for taking his time and adopting this kid from the Philippines, and gave him his future, and opportunities. Without him, I wouldn't be here.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

I can do anything I want with the rest of my body, but the face is something I've inherited. I should thank my parents for it.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.