Quotes About Excellence

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.

I'm in this sport to win but win by being the best, not by being lucky.

It's incredible to win an individual award in a team sport and also one where everybody wants to be able to say, 'I'm the best.'

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

I always wanted to win, but I only used to get upset if I hadn't done myself and the people around me proud - that was my motivation for always wanting to do better.

To be good is not enough; you also have to make your team win. And, when you are an attacker, that most often happens through a goal or through an assist.

I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things.

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

I don't have a doubt that if I wanted to win Grand Slams, I would commit. I'd train two times a day. I'd go to the gym every day. I'd stretch. I'd do rehab. I'd eat right.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.

When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

My job is to go out there and win one-on-ones and make plays whenever it's called.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

Hopefully I can be one of the best midfielders in the world. That's what drives me on: to try and achieve that and to try and go on and win many things.

If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

If you want to win, you come to play; I don't come to half-step. If you think that you're No. 2 out there, then you won't be nothing. You can't have that. You have to be No. 1. That's the thing.

That's one of the core qualities at Real Madrid - you've got to be able to win all the time.

I just want to play well, and I want to win.

It's a Grand Slam. Everyone is playing to win, playing for themselves at the best level. They've prepared their best.

I want to compete with the best - Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Because I know that not only can we compete, I know that we can win.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.