Quotes About Legend

Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down...

You want me to describe Elvis, wow!

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Where flies Korabas, there shall be T'iam.

Among the Bridgeburners, names had emerged. The survivors, mostly squad sergeants, names that pushed their way into the Malazan armies on Genabackis, and beyond. Names, spicing the already sweeping legend of Onearm's Host. Detoran, Antsy, Spindle, Whiskeyjack. Names heavy with glory and bitter with the cynicism that every army feeds on.

History and legend conspire to convince us that there are men who rise above the common lot of humankind, who are set apart from the rest of us by birth or achievement or the favor of the gods; but no man, regardless of his pretensions to greatness, is immune from death, and the death of the so-called great is often more squalid and terrifying than the deaths of their most humble subjects.

But it wasn't Helen's face alone that launched the Greeks' celebrated thousand ships. It was the lure of booty.

Legends say that Foy banished the cockatrice, but in essence he just hid from her.

Without taking any action himself, he had become more than a legend.

Creatures that feed upon blood are abhorred and feared by the majority of humans.

Had some ancient race preyed upon humanity in some way, so that certain conditions of death now echoed those old legends?

Perhaps he had become mythical, and was therefore creating myths.

It was like a fairytale. She couldn't imagine these creatures of myth physically present in the land.

The Tartauchi and Beth…Gimel, they were beginning to conjoin. Such is the way monsters were conceived, at one time.

You remember the fairy tales you were told when you were very small - 'once upon a time...' Why do you think they always began like that?" "Because they weren't true," Simon said promptly. Jane said, caught up in the unreality of the high remote place, "Because perhaps they were true once, but nobody could remember when.

To to be learning from a legend like Frank Lampard is fantastic. I'm soaking up everything he's telling me.

For me, David Beckham will always be a legend... everything David represents for soccer, as an example to children, is reserved for very few people.

Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.

I'm a big soccer fan. My favorite player is Ronaldo, but the real Ronaldo. The Ronaldo from Brazil.

Matt Bonner. That's the legend right there. I was in fifth grade and watched him play at our local high school. Sold out. It was incredible.

I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it's pretentious. For me, it's a challenge. My desire, a dream. I'm not saying I'll get there, but it's what I want.

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.