Quotes About Legacy

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

I like Nietzsche. I quote him in many of my books. He was born 100 years before me.

People still quote my lines from 'Best in Show.'

I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated with me is 'We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.'

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

I want to live to help my race.

I don't want to die in a race car.

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I've always had in my blood. I don't know, but since very little I've always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

I think my love of cars came from my dad, when I was much younger. Before my dad spent all his money on my racing, he had some nice cars. And my grandfathers had nice cars.

Racing runs in the blood of my family and my dream was to do the Dakar one day.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

Many people talk about me entering the history books as the first female in 22 years and what a big moment it was. And I'm very flattered that I managed to do something historic, but in all honesty I was out there for me as a racing driver and to show everybody what Susie Wolff is capable of not to put my name in the history books.

When I stopped racing, I kept being asked to comment on diversity in the sport but I really felt I had done my part.

Racing's in my blood. My mum met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike in his shop.

And Dale Jr., Dale's son, and Dale and I all raced to the checkered - were racing toward the checkered, which would have been the greatest race in NASCAR history, I'm convinced of it, had we have made it that last quarter of a mile. But instead it became the worst race in NASCAR history when Dale crashed and died on turn four.

I definitely feel like I'm carrying on the legacy of the Scott family. What Wendell had to go through was extremely difficult, but he kept racing, kept fighting. Part of him will be with me when I'm out on the track.

My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and doing motor racing with him goes hand in hand.

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

As far as my goals are concerned, Eli Drake needs to be a household name any and everywhere it can be. Aside from that I want to rack up championships.

Carter G. Woodson