Quotes About Excellence

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.

If there are opportunities, seize them and be prepared for them, and be the best, if that's what it takes. If you have to be extraordinary, then be extraordinary.

Acompli is just a great example of a fabulous app.

I'm just trying to be the best basketball player, the best student, the best son, friend, etcetera. I'm just trying to get better in every facet.

You have to be a champion in all facets of life.

In England, if you don't have good facilities, you can't be in the Super League, and that is very important.

I need that fear factor in training; otherwise, I might get beat by someone I should never lose against, all because I couldn't get up in the morning.

I am certain Chelsea are world leaders at a team level at what we do. For us it is part of our fabric. It is one of the many tenants that we factor into what helps towards our players becoming successful athletes and a successful team.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it.

Records are meant to be broken and they should be broken, but fairly.

I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

You have to give 100 percent in the Champions League, as you're up against the biggest teams.

When we go out and play the teams that we need to beat that aren't near our level, then we've got to go out there and blow them out.

I don't want anyone to get injured. It's a competition: you want to play against the best teams and the best players.

Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.

We've got teams and other countries have teams. Right now, we are going to their countries; we're finding the best athletes; we're bringing them to our team. We're training them, we're making them awesome, and sending them back to beat us. We've got to stop that.

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.

To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.

George Morris is a legend. I was lucky enough to have been on a number of his U.S. show-jumping teams and am constantly trying to learn from him.