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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."

"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."
Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life."

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."
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