Top 86 Quotes About Greats
#2. I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.
Todd Lowe
#3. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis
#4. Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
Sara Genn
#5. Any time you start feeling sorry for yourself or you go into a rant about how bad life sucks, you immediately have to name five greats.
Amy Harmon
#6. Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully.
Ann Voskamp
#7. If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.
Channing Tatum
#8. My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
Joanna Lumley
#9. The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
John Cleese
#10. History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.
Aziz Hamza
#11. I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.
Ice Cube
#12. Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
Whitney Houston
#13. I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really.
Grace Gealey
#15. In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats.
David Mitchell
#16. All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.
A.D. Posey
#17. I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.
Kevin Chamberlin
#18. If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!
Mickey Mantle
#19. If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.
Raphael Saadiq
#20. If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.
John McGraw
#21. If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.
Gene Black
#22. I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.
Victor Ortiz
#23. Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing.
Howard Roberts
#24. '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.
Jason Day
#25. In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.
Laozi
#26. I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.
Coolio
#27. Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.
Miguel Cotto
#28. The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.
Jack Nicklaus
#29. There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.
Carmen Ejogo
#30. I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.
Nathan Gamble
#31. The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.
Martin Heidegger
#32. It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa
Mother Teresa
#33. It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.
Debi Thomas
#34. They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.
Drake
#35. You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
Dan Aykroyd
#36. Kurosawa was one of film's true greats ... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him.
George Lucas
#37. 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.
Patti LuPone
#38. It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.
Simon Sinek
#39. I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
Jim Kaat
#40. As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
David Naughton
#41. I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird!
Robin Leach
#42. The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.
Abhijit Naskar
#43. Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.
LeBron James
#44. It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.
Wladimir Klitschko
#45. I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.
Mark Salling
#46. 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.
Michael Phelps
#47. All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
Robert Cray
#48. In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.
Raekwon
#49. To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the world have great affection and admiration for him. What a beautiful man he was and what a privilege to have been touched by him.
Margrit Mondavi
#50. I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
Oliver Stone
#51. I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.
Ledisi
#52. It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
Murray Walker
#53. (reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'.
Tommy Tune
#54. I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.
Walter Cronkite
#55. 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.
Dylan McDermott
#56. I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.
Reggie Watts
#57. The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.
Anthony Albanese
#58. I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
A.R. Rahman
#59. Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.
Martin Jacques
#60. We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."
Jordan Peele
#61. All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.
Karen Marie Moning
#62. I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
Chrissie Hynde
#63. 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
Timothy Dalton
#64. I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus ... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.
Zach Braff
#65. The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I do what I love, work night and day, and I'm open to the spirits. that's when the "Greats" take over.
Richard Cabral
#66. The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them.
Stephen Rodrick
#67. The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint
The greats were great because they paint a lot
Macklemore
#68. 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.
Ed Belfour
#69. I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#70. Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.
Maureen O'Hara
#71. One of the reasons I appreciate being in a Pirates uniform is the greats who have worn it in the past. There was Bill Mazeroski hitting the walk-off home run to win the World Series. There was Roberto Clemente wearing the number 21. There was Pops: Willie Stargell. There was Dave Parker: Cobra.
Andrew McCutchen
#72. Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.
Brian O'Driscoll
#74. Those are my five greats for Georgia today. Those were my five greats yesterday and they will be tomorrow and the next day, until your kisses get old. Then I'll have to think of something else.
Amy Harmon
#75. You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
Julia Cameron
#76. Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.
Dick Cavett
#77. There's always a price to pay for success, and it's the men who are willing to pay that price that determines the greats of each generation.
Mitch Wilson
#78. Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
Don Rickles
#79. I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
R. Kelly
#80. Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
Oscar Robertson
#81. Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.
Beth Mowins
#82. 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.
B.B. King
#83. The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
Zendaya
#84. You have the same DNA as the greats of the past who started revivals.
Lou Engle
#85. The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.
Hassan Rouhani
#86. Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.
Susan Sontag
