Greatest Quotes

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.