Quotes About Excellence

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

I want to accomplish something for myself and set a bar for myself, for somebody to be like, 'Damn, Trippie legendary. He did such and such.'

I want the undisputed career. I want the best damn career. I want to be the best guy ever to do this.

I play this game to be the best, and it doesn't matter what other people say, I think I'm pretty damn good.

There is a battle between me and Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. We always do our best.

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my life. I haven't seen anybody else work more.

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.

HIL boasts of a high-class list of players and coaches like Ric Charlesworth, Barry Dancer, etc.

I know what I bring to the table. I know my game offensively and defensively. I think I'm one of the best, if not the best, playing two-ways.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.

For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.

David Bakhtiari is a guy I like to watch. He's an exceptional left tackle.

For me, the obvious examples of tag teams I was a big fan of, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard. I would watch them and be blown away by how incredible they were.

In your journey to the tag of winning-at-all-costs you can still behave, you can still do the right things by not crossing the line. Lot of champions have done it. Look at Rahul Dravid, Steve Waugh.

When I think of tag teams that have made me want to the very best, of course, I think of my family, but I also think about teams like Edge and Christian, The Hardy Boyz, and The Dudley Boyz, who all helped define tag teams during the Attitude Era.

Every play I'm competing my tail off to try to win the route, win the block or whatever my job is on that play.

My job is to be able to perform for three hours or three and a half hours every Sunday and I've got to work my tail off to get to the point where I can do it, and that's what motivates me.

I'm just going to come in each year and work my tail off and try to be the best I can be.

Tainted numbers, I believe, do not belong in the Hall of Fame.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.