Quotes About Greatness

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

I'm invested in the UFC, but I'm invested in myself at the same time, showing everyone that I am one of the greatest.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

To be chosen Mr. Basketball, I couldnt believe it. To be honored with Ty Cobb, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey... its pretty mind boggling.

As far as LeBron James, to me, he's on his way to carving out the very best career that's ever happened in the NBA.

Well, the LeBron James of the world don't come around very often. That's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.

Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.

With Jay-Z, it's hard not to be amazing.

I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.

Jerry Rice, he's one of the best to ever do it.

The first person I really saw dominate a game was Jerry Rice. And Michael Irvin.

Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

John Madden, I always thought, was awesome.

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

When I left Real, I left a great club but joined a great club.

Cristiano Ronaldo joined United a year after me. He was ultra-confident, with the talent to back it up. He was dedicated, too, and practised as hard as anyone after training. You could tell that he wanted to be a great player, the greatest.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Wherefore you shall observe, that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons, in their greatness, are ever bemoaning themselves, what a life they lead; chanting a quanta patimur! Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

In the Kingdom of God there are no great men, only humble men God has used greatly.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.