Sports Greatness Quotes

#1. Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

Kirk Mango

#2. If it were easy it would not be any fun.

T Jay Taylor

#3. 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

#4. The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

Mike Tyson

#5. He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

Jimmy Cannon

#6. I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about. It's not what this school represents." -Coach Frank Allocco

Neil Hayes

#7. Team guts always beat individual greatness.

Robert Zuppke

#8. Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Marion Jones