Hank Aaron Quotes

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do it.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

I think our legacy will always be there. My brothers and I have carved a path for all taekwondo players, not just in the U.S.

When you look at some of the greatest people and players in the world they all stand for something outside their working lives.

Sometimes it's better to make a mark than to hit your mark, and I think I realized that early on.

You want to make an impact and show what you're about.

There's a difference between a job and purpose. If I did my job without purpose, I wouldn't have the intention to put things out there that should be heard. But I have a purpose.

I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn't come with money and it doesn't come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about what you do. That's having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That's having a life of success. That's what having a life of meaning is.

I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will work out. That's what drives me. I'm not looking for legacy or history books or whatever. I know what we've done here has saved a significant number of lives. The burden is not on me. It's on the politicians who made the decisions to limit what we're doing. They're the ones who are going to pay a price, in my judgment, if crime significantly increases.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.