Kevin Knox Quotes

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

When your name gets mentioned with the great guys that played this game in the past, that's very big.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

I don't know if fame will come.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

I want to be able to be looked back on and know that he was one of the greats in the game.