Quotes About Legend

Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential.

What makes a star or a movie into a legend? I don't know. For instance, when Robert Taylor and I made 'Party Girl' in 1958, nobody was particularly excited about it. Now, it's considered by thousands to be a classic. There are 'Party Girl' cults.

I'd won three cups with Lazio - then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League. Rome went wild. Thousands of people filled the streets, and fans even jumped on my car. I became known as Il Mitico - 'the legend.'

I was very shocked to hear about Michael Jackson's passing. He was a pioneer, and icon and a legend. I remember buying 'Thriller' when I was pretty young.

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

I don't think I even understand all that Tiger's done for the game of golf.

Myth is the threshold of history.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Tara is the spiritual daughter of Avalokitesvara. She is usually either white or green in colour, and according to another beautiful legend she was born from the tears of Avalokitesvara as he wept over the sorrows of existence. In the midst of a great pool of his tears there appeared a white lotus. The lotus opened, and there was Tara , the very essence, indeed the quintessence, of compassion.

All would say that my tongue tells tales and for a greater man

the doorkeeper's feet are seven armlengths long five oxhides for his sandals ten shoemakers worked on them

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.