Quotes About Greats

I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

That's two different influences... The Warriors nation as a fan base, that's a whole lot of pressure. Then you got the pressure of playing with some greats.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them.

Learn from your mentors, own the traits of the greats but acknowledge your own unique abilities.

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.

I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.

When you think about the greats, like Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold and George Morgan, there really isn't that much of a difference between their singing and Andy Williams and Perry Como. It's just the instrumentation that was a lot different.

I've been fortunate to drive for some of the greats in racing.

Brando's one of the greats; what can you say?

Salman bhai is amazing, and he is one of the greats of our cinema, and I don't think I should be compared to Salman Khan.

I respect our greats. I admire them.

TeeFlii brought an edge to our camp. He's definitely going to be one of the greats.

I've been around a lot of greats I seen in this industry that have problems, but the comeback can be that much greater.

When you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.

I don't really care about belts. Look at all the greats, they fight for the right to be called the best and the crowd.

The Glove is in the Hall of Fame with the greats.

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.