Quotes About Purpose

I didn't want to be fireman. I didn't want to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or president. I didn't want to be any of those things the kids go through when they're young and growing up, and, 'Hey, I want to do this.'

There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.

I want my children to see what all my work leads to.

The story always leads you where it's supposed to go.

I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.

Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me.

What I'm doing with the NWO is for me, for my family, so I can leave a legacy for my kids.

What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

If you're playing baseball, why are you playing baseball? Is it to have success on the field and be a Hall-of-Famer or whatever it is? Sure, that's everyone's goal. But then what? For me, it's about the legacy you leave off the field.

I'm in there for more than just a fight. I'm in there fighting for my legacy.

I just feel like now, I have a family, I have kids. I do everything for them. I just think about what's the legacy I want to leave when I'm gone, what do I want people to say about me?

I'm not big on what my career will be or what my legacy will be.

I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.

I have at least one goal that I work toward each day. It's all about taking hold of the day rather than letting the day run you.

I've really just been free-floating and letting my path take me where it will, but you can't continue to do that if you want to elevate.

You know, people would always ask me, 'How long is Primus going to go on?' And I would say, 'Until it isn't fun anymore.' At the end of the '90s, it just wasn't fun anymore on many levels.

Away from football, life is not just football. People do not see it how life goes on for us off the field.

Everything in life happens for a reason.

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

Work's a way of life. It's the way you live; it's what you do, and it's how it is. It's not work. It's a lifestyle. It's life. It's what one does. You can't not work.

I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

I'm not a huge award type person, that's not really what lights my fire.