Quotes About Excellence

I'm not racing through my division - I'm cleaning it out.

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

I love the buzz of racing and being competitive and trying to push myself to be the best that I can be.

I like that, to possibly be the guy to make Chip Ganassi Racing a championship team year in and year out.

I pride myself on that, even though I'm kind of under the radar, when I step on the field, I try to do an admirable job.

I play my best stuff when I am a little under the radar.

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

My bar has been raised so high that it has to be something really big to get me riled up and bring out the absolute best in me.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

Ralph Lauren is wonderful.

Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have learned and gained from all of those experiences. And as I've often said, the public hasn't seen the best of me yet. I need someone like Mayweather to bring that out of me.

We record in the spirit of the Berry Gordy camp and Gamble & Huff, where people were writing up to a dozen quality songs within a day because the competition was that hard.

Going 33 games unbeaten is no coincidence.

The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.

Gary Ross is amazing.

I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then I gather these people, put them in a room, and watch incredible things come out of it.

The Champions League is a very special one, as everyone switches one gear up.