Quotes About Legacy

I want to put Sacramento back on the map.

The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.

My parents taught me that it is my responsibility to make sacrifices for those after me.

I'm not a saint - I'm not saying that - but I was lucky enough to work with people who believed in me, and I want to honor that until the day I die. I'm still learning and still evolving, though.

I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

The first time I heard Sam Cooke was in the 'Malcom X' film. I was with my father, and that's the first time I heard his song. I remember my father telling me the story of Sam Cooke.

I remember watching Argentina beat the U.S. in 2004 and I think maybe the same story that Argentina wrote with the 'Gold Generation,' we can write, too.

Without Merlin, there would be no Gandalf, so I see them as the same thing, one a continuation of the other.

If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

When I'm sat at 45 and retired, I want to look back and see what I've done and that I've played games rather than having come to the end of my career and tailed off.

I look back on my career with some sort of satisfaction.

I am very satisfied with what I've done in my career and with what I managed to do with Botafogo.

I don't miss basketball because I've already got in my mind that I did what I had to do for 17 years. I think I'm satisfied with what I did.

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

The one moment above all that fans bring up from my career when they run into me is the Savage match. Here it is, 30 years later, and everywhere I go that's what people want to talk about.

I'm kind of like both of them: My mother grew up wanting to save the world, and my father grew up wanting to rule the world.

I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me.

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

The older I get, the more I'm saving the day.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.