Quotes About Greatness

All the great players you ask always expect greatness.

Obviously, Kobe is one of the greatest players to ever play the game.

There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.

Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.

It's one thing to make it to the NBA. It's one thing to make the playoffs your first year. It's one thing to make the playoffs your second year. But if you want to be great, you've got to continue to work.

You know, the thing about the great receivers? They won. They were in the playoffs. They were making big plays.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

There are very few great poets in the world.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I want to be the Cassius Clay of snooker. Cassius is the greatest at boxing and that's what I mean to be at snooker.

You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

I have always said that great players must always play for the great clubs.

When I say I played with the greatest, let's not forget I also played for the greatest coach of all time.

We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.

The great movies and the great commercials always work on every single level.

When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

To be compared to Brett Favre is pretty special, but he was his own player, and so am I. I'm not trying to be Brett Favre, Jr., the second coming. I want to be myself, and I want to be the best to ever play.

It is nice to hear yourself being compared to great players.

That is what we stand for - for an America that is every bit as compassionate as it is exceptional.

Messi is the greatest, but he has always been surrounded by other great players.