Quotes About Excellence

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

Anytime you can beat a player that's going to go down as one of the best of all time, that's a good win.

If you're looking to be the best in the world, you have to beat the best in the world.

You don't get to this position or this level of fighting or a record like mine by beating nobodies.

I don't feel like I'm in competitive with anybody. If I'm worried about beating somebody else, I'm not going to be the best version of me. It shouldn't be a competition because somebody else winning is not going to make me lose.

You want to say you're the best on the planet? Well, prove it by beating this person and that person. Beat everybody.

I've been getting in the ring with the best, and I've been beating the best.

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.

The best is that one that beats everybody. I don't care about the rankings.

I love it when the best team beats the best players.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

The day I do get a championship-winning car, I will run with it. I will capitalise on every part of that beautiful thing.

Work on not becoming good but excellent.

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

I want to be the best. I don't know by what standard you measure being the best, but I want to go out there and perform and feel like I'm the best.

For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.

I'm about being the best.

I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio.

You're never happy with not being the best.

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

I wasn't fighting in this sport from the beginning for any other reason than being the best.

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.

I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.