Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

The last thing I want is to die and then be put into the Hall of Fame. It's not because I won't be there to enjoy it, exactly. It's because I want to enjoy it with family and friends and fans. I want to see them enjoy it.

Posthumously means getting something after you’re dead, which is not as good as getting something while you are alive, but better than not getting anything at all.

Hats off, gentlemen — if he were still alive we should not be here.

We are always full of the types of people who retire or die. But they are never saying 'This guy is really unbelievable; we're alive to witness an exceptional performer.' I think we should recognise that while we are still racing.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Most of the people don't get their just due until they ain't here no more.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.

People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.

I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

I think every human being in the world appreciates being encouraged and acknowledged.

People still thank me for the stuff I did for this sport, and I appreciate everything people say.

The guys that go into the Hall of Fame are the winners, and the losers are the ones who put them in there, and I would like to see some of the great losers through the years be in the Hall of Fame. I know that that's probably impossible, but you've got to give those losers credit, they made the winners.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.