Legacy Quotes

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago" "I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison, but I want to be different." "I'm continually driven by the legacy of my family" "Every game, every practice is a chance to honor the James name" "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living" "Life is about being a part of something bigger than yourself. You get wrapped up in getting all the glory and the fame and the status, I feel like that's a shallow life. And that can fade away pretty quickly." "If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets." "The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively." "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time" "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted" "My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever." "In this bright future, you can't forget your past." "Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past" "Go on get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" "When you are talking about a great player, if you can't remember who he played against or some of the guys, he played against ain't great" "Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence" "I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public I can somehow cure my own legend" "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse." "The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away." "Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death."