Quotes About Excellence

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

To win the Champions League and possibly the Euros in the same season would be incredible, a feat achieved by very few.

International Amateur Atheletic Federation had selected me in 1985 and 1986 as one of the best eight athletes in the world.

Athletics is not like cricket; we feed on the competition and that makes us bring out the best in us.

I don't know if I actually respect other artists as people as much as I should. I look at their work as excellent data that feeds my mind as nature feeds my body.

To let somebody get 30 points on you, and you feel good because you got 35 on them, that's not good for me, you know what I'm saying? If I get 35, I want him to get 12 or 14 because that means I've done something. I've done my job. I went out there and played hard and did what I had to do.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

Lamborghini outperforms Ferrari, every time.

If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it.

There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

You need to cut a few things out if you want to be the best you can be.

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

There's no way I'm going to be second fiddle.

I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

The first championship in 2005 will always be the most special but winning this fifth one was by far my best performance because of the strength of the field.

I love to fight. And I love to fight against the best.

Most important for me is to fight the best, where the fight means something and fans want it, people want to see it.

Georges St-Pierre is the greatest fighter to have ever done it.

I'm a great fighter all around the board.

I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me.

Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.

I think the reason I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world is I beat everyone in my division.