Brian Lara Quotes

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

I want to be able to be looked back on and know that he was one of the greats in the game.

I want to retire, when it's all said and done, as one of the greats.

When your name gets mentioned with the great guys that played this game in the past, that's very big.

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 guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

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.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

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

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.

I would prefer to be famous for something I did or built or achieved.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

Everybody makes money; not everybody makes history.

The more records you put up, the longer they talk about you.