Top 115 Legends Quotes

When I first arrived at Napoli, I was the ball boy, which meant that I got to watch as the legends trained. Then, once I joined the youth team as a young teenager, I was a midfielder just like Tardelli.

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

When I finally turned 18, I started to wonder if rave was now different to what it was and whether I’d missed out on the golden days of rave. So, I thought I’d talk to some of the legends in the game and get an education on how music was made, listened to and the rave scene from before I was even born.

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn’t about promoting you anymore. It’s about promoting something bigger than you.

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

During my time playing for England we had Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes. They were world-class players playing for Chelsea, Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, all legends of the game.

Growing up I used to watch documentaries on people like Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson. I’ve grown up fascinated with legends and legacies.

I originally went up for a role on the spinoff show, ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ and that led me to audition for Wally West in ‘The Flash’. I enjoy auditioning in general, but this was a particularly fun process because it was so unexpected.

There are no legends about the Duponts; the legends are about Howard Hughes.

If I hadn’t spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

PSG was always a club that I wanted to join. I was ready to come and work hard for the team. When I joined the senior side, I was just shocked to find myself among footballing legends.

Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

I fight guys that no one has ever heard of; I fought guys who are legends, like Frankie Edgar.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I’m just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of ’em.

Honestly, I think there’s a cycle to the popularity of fantasy and fairytales that usually coincides with times of unrest or hardship in our own world. By retelling these legends or immersing ourselves in fantasy realms, we can safely explore the very real, very day-to-day darkness of our own lives.

As we were developing ‘Umbral’, and I was delving into the mythology and legends, I had a sudden realisation. ‘Wasteland’ is about people who fervently believe new myths and legends, but they turn out to be false; whereas ‘Umbral’ is about people who reject ancient myths and legends, but they turn out to be true!

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

Every club has legends, and at Barcelona, Cruyff and Pep are going to be spoken about forever, knowing what they’ve achieved and in what style.

I’ve had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

I grew up listening to legends such as Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett.

From what I’ve read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That’s why the Arthurian legends are so popular – because they are such good stories.

Anybody who’s into Arthurian legends will appreciate that they are being re-told. The Arthurian legends have been developed and re-told over the years.

Literature – Eastern and Western – abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that’s what separates the legends from the regular artists. It’s all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

I’ve always bragged that I fought some guys in the Hall of Fame, legends like B.J. Penn and Matt Hughes and they always knew they were in a fight, but now I’m in there, so I can’t even use that line.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through ‘Poi’ by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir.

I think one of the reasons Stephen King’s stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

I’ve been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

Legends of the Fall’ is one of my favorite movies.

What I love about jazz is that it’s full of legends, full of myths. It’s an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.

As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.

There’s been a lot of legends that I’ve gotten the opportunity to play against, some to play with. Those guys, sometimes they retire or different things, younger guys come up, they start over them.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

I would be so happy to be back on ‘Arrow’ or on ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ in whatever capacity.

I’ve worked with Lil Wayne and Wiz, but I’d like to work with Snoop next. I love ‘Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss’ and ‘Doggystyle’ and pretty much anything he puts out. And Ice Cube – like, all the legends.

Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

I surprised the hell out of myself when I got MVP for the 2018 All Star Legends Celebrity game. I had no idea I was going to get that.

‘Flash’ has a family drama element, ‘Arrow’ has a epic saga/crime element, ‘Supergirl’ has a young-woman-in-the-city and a workplace element, and ‘Legends’ is like the Dirty Dozen teaming up.

Musically, I’m always inspired by the legends like Barbra Streisand.

I’m not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

We should train kids in the music and dance of our legends. That’s how we can keep the traditions alive.

Wisin Y Yandel are legends. They’re very smart and really humble.

Snoop Dogg and T-Pain, to me, are like legends so it’s like, any time you get to work with a legend like that, it’s cool.

I am a huge fan of Yash Chopra, Karan Johar, Farah Khan, Sooraj Barjatiya or Sanjay Leela Bhansali or Aditya Chopra. They are great legends.

Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it’s hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.

I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, ‘You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.’ It’s always that. That conversation always comes up when we’re talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league.

I’ve always had an innate ability to dance, but I’m not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

I would mark 2015 down as the best year of my life. Now, I beat a couple of legends, became World Heavyweight Champion, ascended to the very top of the industry; I got two cats – that was a big deal in 2015.

I’ve always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the ‘The Oresteia,’ and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.

Dad always said, ‘Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.’ He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through.