Chris Coleman Quotes

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

I want to go down in history.

Some day I will be better remembered.

To think I thought you could lose your place in history.

I want the world to know me. I want to go down in history.

I want to put my name in history. I love history.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

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

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

I want people talking about me when I'm gone.

I want to be remembered.

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.