Quotes About Excellence

Whoever likes football always likes to see the best player on the pitch.

All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager's mind.

It's going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him - he'll be a great batsman or bowler.

When you step on the field, you should feel that you're the best, you and whoever your partner is.

I want to train with whoever is the best.

Whoever comes to Madrid does so because he has the qualities to do things well.

As a competitor, you always want to go against the best, so whoever guards me, I'm hoping it's the best defender from the other team.

Whoever scores the most goals, the Golden Boot is a by-product of that. I want to be seen up there, at that level.

I'll fight whoever I have to fight to prove that I'm the best.

To me, I'm on a whole different level of rapping.

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you're failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

It's a whole new world once you get to the professional rankings, being able to continue to stay on top.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.

I'm just trying to be the best I can be. I try to surround myself with people who are strong in areas I'm weak. Which is why I have such a big staff.

I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?