Patrick Swayze Quotes

We don't want to just be known for what we did. We want to be known for what we do and what we did. We've been highly productive since 2000 when 'Crush' came out.

I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that's going to be the most valuable for my career.

I care about my legacy.

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

It's always great to add to your legacy.

You're only as good as your body of work.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me if I had the worst career stats in N.B.A. history as long as I got my 'ships. The 'ships, it shuts everything up.

People would ask me about my legacy, and I would tell them my legacy is what I did. You can't change it. It's just what you do or what you did.

I want to leave a nice legacy.

When you're caught up in your career, you're not thinking about becoming a legend one day or how, 25 years from now, you'll be immortalized in something or that you might be going into the Hall of Fame.

I don't care about that All-Star bonus, to be honest. It's just about my legacy.

You cannot appreciate the sense of satisfaction that I get from my job.

My legacy is so, so important to me.

I used to say if there was anything I would really want to have as I kind of get older in my career, it would be wonderful to have relevance to somebody in some way so that I could continue to work on some level.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

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.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.