Max Aaron Quotes

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But the memories that you take are forever.

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.

I've been blessed. I've had a fortunate, successful career in the NFL. It's been longer than I initially expected when I came into the NFL.

It's more important to have the one million diehard fans than to have 54 million people who aren't necessarily fans, or they might have liked one thing you said or one video.

It's not an easy thing to be in this league 10 years. Especially with me being a second-round pick, the 46th pick, and an undersized guard, to carve a lane for myself and have a career, for my family to realize that and appreciate that, it meant a lot to me.

I'm trying to leave a legacy, man. I'm trying to get a gold jacket someday. That's my mindset.

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.

That's the thing: You'll lose your legs, your athleticism, but if you can shoot - definitely from 3 - you can play into your high thirties.

There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.

The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.

I completely understand how temporary fame is, and I keep my sanity at all times.

I guess I'm just proud that I kept on working, not becoming just a viral hit.

It's gratifying to work for somebody who doesn't measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.

When I'm done with football, I want to be done with football. I don't want to have, Oh, did I leave too early?

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

You don't want to have a fast career for two years. You want to have an amazing career for 20 years.

Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.