Quotes About Excellence

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

My aim is to be the best in the world and perform in each of Pakistan's wins.

I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins.

I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.

A player from Africa who wins championships? That's powerful.

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

I want to be in a place where they know I'm the best corner in the game and let me play and help the team get wins.

When you have a mix of culture, talent and discipline, wins are going to start happening.

We changed the University of Houston in 23 short months more than anybody thought was possible. Not just from a wins and losses standpoint but from an infrastructure standpoint as well.

What can you say to someone like me? When you've got 19 world championship wins, it's almost like you're cursed because you're too good.

I'm not here for anything other than world championships. I don't want to be here driving around and finishing races and scoring points. I only want to win and if I can't do that - if I can't see that I have a future with wins and championships - then I'm not up for Formula One, I'll do something else where I can win.

Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Part of the attraction of the SEAL teams was the incredible tests that it offered.

I want to be the best quarterback at Texas Tech, the best quarterback in the Big 12.

Baylor has stood here before the state of Texas was even formed. It will be here for a long time. It hit a rough time, but this is what Baylor stands for. It stands for excellence and leadership and service and a spiritual mission.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.

I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.

When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.