Nick Diaz Quotes

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

That's always the goal. If you don't want to be the best or have the company on your back with everyone relying on you, then you shouldn't be here.

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.

You live once... Why not live to be great?

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

I wanted to the best player in the state - [the best] the area has ever seen. That's always been my goal. Guys like Elgin Baylor, Adrian Dantley and Dave Bing, it's tough to pass those guys. So I'm studying, working. My project's not over yet. Hopefully, I get there.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

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.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.