Deion Sanders Quotes

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.

It's never too late to be great.

I want to be bigger than everybody.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.

You were created to excel. There’s no limit to how high you can go in life. Keep stretching to the next level.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

I want to be great, something special.

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.