Quotes About Excellence

No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early - get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee... prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.

There's just something inside of me that wakes me up every day and pushes me and wants me to be great.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.

When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

I don't think there is any 16-year-old who is going to embark on the sort of career that Sachin Tendulkar has had and walk away from the game at 40 with such great achievements. He's the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

It's flattering to be compared to Kohli. He is very consistent, and his mindset is very good. He gives his 100 per cent every time he walks out to bat.

My goal is to be the absolute best in the world and to beat everybody who walks this earth. And you know what? There's a lot of people out there.

I'm looking for pound-for-pound list to be the best in the world and it takes belts to get there so let's get there.

I want all the top guys, all the belts.

If I'm starting, I'm gonna do that, that's the main goal for me, to be the best player I can be. But being on the bench, I'll be the best I can be and help the team to the best of my ability.

The benchmark of quality I go for is pretty high.

I am the best in baseball.

All you can do is to do your best.

I can only do my thing and do the best that I can.

Joss Whedon is the best man on the planet.

That's all we're looking to do, make great fights, baby. That's it. And may the best man win.