Greatness Quotes

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course – but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

It is just as they said it would be great, and terrible, and on occasion, terribly great. (life)

At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change – that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.