People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them.
I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'