Top 344 Legend Quotes

With ‘Doctor Who’, with the script you have, and the history, I think that people are actually playing the legend rather than the character. Ive been to sci-fi conventions, and Ive met every Doctor Who and assistant.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Al was already a legend when I got to campus. You wanted to play for the best? You went to UCLA to play for Al Scates.

When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has surpassed that dream.

When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend – for the people around the world, you are different.

I think Giannis can be a LeBron-type player, like an all-world, Hall of Famer, MVP, legend, one of the best ever. He’s doing the right things to put himself in that situation. I think he will get there.

A West Virginia 10 is a California 4. Or at least that’s what legend tells us: The Legend of Dr. Feelgood. Plastic surgery has a permanent home here, which is why Nancy Pelosi loves our Botoxed beaches. Beverly Hills looks like a moving Madame Tussauds.

Sachin Tendulkar definitely is a legend, but I had a crush on Anil Kumble – what a personality he had. I also liked Ajay Jadeja.

I regard Buffon as one of the best goalkeepers in the history of football. He is a legend for me, a fantastic man, and an excellent goalkeeper.

I don’t think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.

I’m just humbled Hank Aaron even knows who I am. Growing up in Georgia… he’s a legend everywhere, but even more so there.

People always say I’m a legend, but I’m not. Not until I’ve defended my Olympic titles. That’s when I’ve decided I’ll be a legend.

Gene Mean. He come to my wedding. He always make the Sheikie Baby look No. 1 on the promo. He know the camera zoom… it make the legend the real. Forever nobody better than the Gene Mean. I love him forever.

Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He’s a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.

I’m from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America – it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit.

There’s a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Jose Aldo’s a legend. He accomplished many great things in his lifetime.

I’ve never considered myself as a legend – just a simple man with heart.

‘I Am Legend’ is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn’t get that going in my mind. I don’t know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

I know Schweinsteiger very well, and I used to play with him. He’s a very good guy and a legend.

LeBron James has proven he can lead by example. My wish for LeBron is to understand the following: He’s an exceptional leader because he leads by example. The next step on the road to Legend, which he’s already on, is to trust he’s the best player in the best system anywhere in basketball.

Venus is a walking, living, breathing legend.

I look back on my life, comin’ out of Macon, Georgia – I never thought I’d be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

To do a film with Govinda, who is a legend in that genre, whose timing is impeccable was challenging.

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

I want to set myself as a real legend in the sport, like Phelps and Mark Spitz are remembered worldwide. I want people to say, like they say of Ronaldo that he is the best soccer player in the world, I want them to say Chad Le Clos is the best swimmer in the world.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Like sexual harassment in the workplace and two-martini lunches, VJs are the stuff of legend whose time and train have passed, but I was fortunate enough to sneak into the express and ride it through the greatest age.

Miyazaki is a genius. He is the legend.

When you work with a legend as I do, it’s wonderful. There’s so many things I’ve learned working with Keith. He’s so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

Mark Hunt is a legend in MMA, he’s a legend of K1 and it’s a great honor to fight him.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

You know, I thought seeing Aretha Franklin last year was amazing, and I didn’t think anyone can top that. But if someone can, John Legend would be the man. In my mind, he’s a legend, no pun intended.

It was a dream come true to meet GR Viswanath sir, who is a legend in the game.

I don’t think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making ‘Belle de Jour’ and other wonderful films, and eating great food.

Umm, if I could nose anybody… I guess over there it would be Ricky Gervais. He’s a hero of mine. I consider him an idol, I love everything he does. So to be able to place my nose on such a Brit legend, that would be my pick.

Kenny Bates is a legend.

I’m not a real person. I’m a legend.

Bob Rondeau – he’ll never know this – but he was so instrumental. He is a legend to me and had a major impact in my life.

James Brown really taught me a lot – his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he’s onstage. I’ll always call him a legend, and I’ll always respect what he did.

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher’s Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

Obviously, Fred Astaire was a legend. I’ve tried to copy some of his movements.

It means a lot to me, of course, if you have a win over Arlovski, who is a legend. It’s huge.

I’m a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but ‘Mulan’ is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it’s so important for young girls to have.

The legend of a cable company trying to break the Internet makes scary bedtime stories for children of telecom geeks, but it is not reality.

I don’t like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see ‘I Am Legend’ with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you’ve seen many times.

I saw Jimi Hendrix – it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I’m supposed to do, that keeps me going.

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

Darren Criss is a legend.

I always had problems with making singles because I’m not a singles type of guy. I never needed radio to blow me up. I’m a street legend.

I take it as a compliment to be compared with a legend like Kishore Kumar.

My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘How to Succeed,’ ‘Cactus Flower,’ ’40 Karats,’ ‘Can-Can,’ ‘Happy Hunting,’ ‘Reclining Figure,’ it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows’ kid. That was my self-esteem.