Quotes About Excellence

You want to win all games, which means you want to win all cups and all prizes.

If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

Regardless of whether I'm starting or not, I'll try and be the best pro I can be.

We all just want NXT to be the best product we can do. I don't care about what's going on anywhere else, we just get on with what we do, which is competitive pro wrestling and that's what NXT is.

I want to make Pro Bowls, do all the great things.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

This is somewhere I want to be for now on, being in the Pro Bowl and being an All-Pro player.

I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

I would like people to say that when they describe the type of player I am. Someone that prepares like a pro.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.

In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.