Quotes About Excellence

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

Probably the No. 1 characteristic, if you want win championships, you've got to be great competitors. It's got to come naturally.

If you cast the right actor, it not only compliments your work, it elevates your work.

I never compromise with my work.

Luxury is research in quality. It's quality with no compromise. What does that mean? That you don't think about how much something will cost to be able to achieve the very, very best.

You want to be the best at your career, you want to be the best mum, a great wife and all of that. Most of the time, it's not possible. You have to compromise somewhere.

I have always been very choosy. I am very particular about banners and filmmakers. Everything has to be top-of-the-line; I have never compromised on that.

There's a lot of compromises, but that's what a great record should be, really.

I don't fear anyone. I just concentrate on giving my best.

I want to concentrate on baseball, which is the best thing I know how to do.

As long as we concentrate on putting out great wrestling, I feel like that's going to benefit us.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.

I just have to play my best game. Not think about anything else - that is the only concern I have and that we should all have.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.

I played with the best conductors of the world.

That accolade, to be the best at your position in your conference, you want that on your resume.

For me, you have to prove yourself over 10, 12 or 15 years if you want to be among the best. Do that and then I will congratulate you.

I just want to be a really good congressman. You should look at what you are today and be the very best you can.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

I loved my work, and it was a conscious decision to give my best all the time.

Winning the Ballon d'Or is the consequence of your work.