Jock Stein Quotes

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Those who come after us will... fill up the canvas we begin.

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.

History doesn't have a curfew.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Without a past you can't have a future.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

A new future requires a new past.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.