Quotes About Legendary

Max Weinberg, Garry Tallent, Steve Van Zandt, Danny Federici, Roy Bittan, Clarence Clemons. This was the core of the group that over the next forty years would evolve into the hard-rockin', history-makin', earth-shakin', booty-quakin', lovemakin' and, yes, eventually, Viagra-takin' legendary E Street Band.

Depending on how he gripped the ball and how hard he threw it, Satchel Paige had pitches that included the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin' ball.

Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, There shall be a badass, and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

Yeah, well, I guess Andy Williams would be considered by some to be schmaltzy, but to me, he's one of the greatest singers of all time. Just absolutely amazing. And if anyone doesn't believe me, just YouTube him. He's just one of a kind.

Calling Jack Nicklaus's last trip to St. Andrews was a once-in-a-lifetime moment.

Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

Shurq Elalle's fate had taken a turn for the worse. Nothing to do with her profession, for her skills in the art of thievery were legendary among the lawless class. An argument with her landlord, sadly escalating to attempted murder on his part, to which she of course - in all legality - responded by flinging him out the window. The hopeless man's fall had, unfortunately, been broken by a waddling merchant on the street below. The landlord's neck broke. So did the merchant's.

Casey was most famous for his supposed lack of diction; his "mumbling" became so legendary in Washington that Reagan quipped that Casey was the only CIA director in history who didn't need to use a scrambler phone. On some minutes of National Security Council meetings, Casey's indecipherable comments were recorded as "??????.

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

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

For soccer, it was Diego Maradona, and then another idol for me was Michael Jordan. To see them play and how that they could impact the game was pretty special.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

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

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

I was lucky enough to play with Zidane, Ronaldo, Figo, Cristiano... but Messi is different; he makes everything look so easy, so effortless - even the impossible.

Lionel Messi is awesome.

I've never met a player like Leo Messi.

Lionel Messi is on a different planet to anyone.

There is only one Messi, no?

There is only one Messi. No matter what I say, it's too little. You have to shower him with superlatives.