Quotes About Excellence

There's always a pressure on performing the best.

I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

Well, I thought the opening of 'Hatari!' was pretty good. And 'The Pink Panther' wasn't half bad either.

Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.

I was always the best actor and best dancer in my college.

I think what made Dancing With the Stars' the number one show for so long, is that we take our craft seriously, we take our relationships seriously.

I really love Daniel Day-Lewis. I think he's the best.

Daniel Cormier has been a model champion. He will be a champion for the rest of his life.

Daniel Day-Lewis - he's a man, obviously, but I really admire his work.

Much respect to Daniel Cormier, he's a hell of an athlete and hell of a champion.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

If Ryan Kalil isn't the game's best center, he's pretty darn close to it.

VUU had won some national championships and had a great coach in Dave Robbins.

David Cohen is without a doubt one of the best - if not the best - public servant I've ever encountered.

I wanted to be great, that's from day one.

I want to be dominant from day one.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.