I went to many games with my dad, Kevin, and looked up to the players. It's surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
I don't want to be Batman. Let Val Kilmer do it. I just want to be Uncle Batman. I have this whole 'warm relationship' plot in my mind. In the final scenes, the new Batmobile breaks down, the new Batman's stranded on the side of the road. We grab our old Batmobile, pick him up and drive away.
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.
I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.
You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.
Few strong leaders are enthusiastic about their successors.
It feels great to know that someone from the younger generation is following me.
At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.
The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.
I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
Messi and Ronaldo have dominated world football for a decade and, given the nature of football, at a certain point the baton will have to pass to someone else. I think Neymar has a great chance of filling that role.
I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
Those having torches will pass them on to others.
I've been inspired by many great players in this league, and it's great to re-inspire younger generations and guys coming into this league.
When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part.
