Jean Paul Quotes

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

For me, I don't want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

That's my job: work hard, win, and inspire.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if you believe that you are, then you're almost as good as being that.

I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things.

I've worked hard and dreamed, and that helped me become one of the best players in the world.

I play to be the best.

The next generation did not seem to be smart enough to realise that you have to work to be at the top and to stay at the top. You can have talent, but if you do not work hard it's not going to happen.

Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

I want to be remembered as the greatest quarterback who ever played. You have to go out and prove it first, and then you have to go out and work hard.

The people I've been around who've been successful - be it players, executives, coaches - there's no substitute for a hard day's work.

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.