Jarome Iginla Quotes

I am not here forever, so I wanted to do the best for the coming generation.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

I don't look too far ahead, to be honest.

I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

I just want to complete my legacy.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.

I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?''

I like to live for today and what's coming up tomorrow, and I love what we're doing with Hellyeah. And that's my focus, and that's my goal, man.

I'm not a good thinker of tomorrow, looking forward. I live day-to-day. It's much easier for me that way.

I haven't really made plans for the future; I'm just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven't really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.