Quotes About Greatness

There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.

We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together!

Sometimes a man has to be great enough to know how insignificant he is.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

Do not be in a hurry to get to the great things. Doing great things will not make you great, but becoming great will certainly lead you to the doing of great things.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

I want to be great, I want to fight the best guys, I want to test myself, I want see what my limits are. I don't think a lot of guys in this sport really have that mentality.

When your name gets mentioned with the great guys that played this game in the past, that's very big.

To be able to be mentioned with guys like Emmitt, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin and my man LaDainian Tomlinson, it's a blessing.

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

I want to be great, I want to be mentioned with the best to ever play the game.

It's an honor to be mentioned with a guy like Walter Payton.

I don't think I'll see the next Messi in my lifetime.

There is Messi, and then the rest.

My heroes were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and now it is Messi.

Messi is just great.

I am not crazy enough to compare myself with Messi because he is the best there ever was and the best there will ever be.

Messi is one of the best in the world.

Lionel Messi is awesome.

Playing with Messi, who is the best player in the world, would be great.

When people mention me and Messi together, it's amazing because, to me, Messi is the best of the best. You can't say anything to him; he's the boss.