Quotes About Greatness

I want to be considered one of the greatest fighters ever.

Ortiz, Wanderlei and Fedor were top fighters for a reason.

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

The experts say I was the first real big man who was able to dominate a game. Who am I to make liars of them? But there were some other fine big centers besides me in the 1940s - Bob Kurland, Don Otten, Arnie Risen and Ed Macauley, to name a few.

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood and rotted English teeth.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

I told my boys this: Somebody gotta be better than Michael Jordan. Why not you?

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.

Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.

Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.