Quotes About Greatness

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

You can't pretend there has ever been anyone come close to doing what I did. Nobody you could name could touch me, and I'm talking about nobody who's around now, nobody who was around in my prime, and nobody who was around any time you can mention outta your mouth.

Bobby Orr, I thought he was the greatest player of all time because he was so far ahead of the competition in his prime.

In a nation as dynamic and diverse as the United States, what makes us great is that our founding principles are rooted in the bedrock principle of freedom, including the right to free expression.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

I've been privileged to coach a lot of great people, high-character guys, and I don't think I've ever coached a better professional than Joel Anthony.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

I think I'm the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If not, you're in the wrong profession.

Michael Jordan was criticized. Barry Bonds was criticized. Some of the greats in every profession have been criticized. Not everything is peaches and cream.

It's in the knockout games that you discover who the great players really are.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.

I love the process. It's like I've fallen in love with the process of trying to become great.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

I think greatness is always good for the NBA. Great players, great teams - it's always good for the NBA.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.