Deion Sanders Quotes

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.

Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity...

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

Great men grow.

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

I want to take out the best in America, then I want to take out the best in the world.

The thing I'm most proud of in my career was to be able to help two organizations go someplace that they've never been before. Not many people get that opportunity to do it with one.

I just want to change the game.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.