aspiring greatness Quotes

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That's just a great feeling.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

My hopes and dreams are to be in the Hall of Fame one day.

I want to keep on improving as a player and become the best... one of the best midfielders in my position in the world.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth.

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

I'm not out here just for the money. I want to be a great player.

No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.