Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

I'm looking to make history.

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.

You want to be a part of the big card. You want to be part of history.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your life]. There was so much notoriety for me in my first season, and to finish by winning the Super Bowl and get the MVP set my place in history. It cements it and its very special. There is something that comes with it, something everyone recognizes and knows. No one can ever take it away from you.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

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

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

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

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.