Quotes About Excellence

I'm committed to the purity of my art form.

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

I don't just get bogged down in, 'I want to win.' There's something even greater than that. And that's the way that you play the game. I want to play beautiful football. That's our purpose: to go out and play the game at the highest level, play it the right way.

I think sometimes we put too much of a gravity on what it is that we do... I just think you go out into the world, and if the door is open, pursue with excellence whatever it is that you feel you are called to pursue.

I am trying to pursue excellence.

When we tell girls that we expect them to pursue education and excel in education, we are changing the narrative and are opening the door to the leaders of our future.

I did pursue to be a good basketball player.

I knew myself. I knew where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be the very best I could be in whatever I pursued.

One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

I'm in the pursuit of excellence. One foot at a time, one camp at a time.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

With back-to-backs, a lot of games, sometimes you think, 'I've got to take a day off today.' But you have to push through it. The greats did.

Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it's paid off.

The only plan is trying to push myself the maximum to be the best player I can.

People who can actually challenge me and push me and almost push me to breaking point and extract a performance out of me, I really enjoy that.

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.

I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

I remember doing 5th grade math when I was like seven years old. My parents just constantly pushed me, in a good way, to always demand excellence in everything that I did.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.

My dad demanded results. I wasn't expected just to be a student, I was supposed to get straight A's. My dad didn't want me just to play sports, he pushed me to win state championships in high school and national championships.

I have always pushed myself. I have never settled for anything less than the best that I could give.