Quotes About Excellence

When I played, I just wanted to guard the best player, and I didn't want him to score. That was just it, just competing. Along the way, it just kept building that I could be a great defender.

What I hate more than sitting out is being on the floor and not being 100 percent. You know you can make this move, or guard this guy better, but something is hampering you from doing it, and in the NBA. finals I hate that more than sitting out.

Goal of mine is to make first team All-Defense. The way you do that is guarding the best players.

I don't care who guards him. He's still going to be Anthony Davis.

I want to be one of the best point guards to ever play.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

So, really, I just try to be the best guitar player I can be - not the best female guitar player, not the best 'X amount of years' guitar player, or whatever - just the best guitar player.

I think what's great is that, when HBO commit, they go in all guns blazing. They attract the very best set designers, the whole thing.

I liked Guru Dutt, the way he used songs and the way he shot songs. He was a class apart.

I've got talent from my gut and I did my job to show to everyone that I'm simply the best.

I will continue to - my team and I - will continue to work our guts out to make sure this state and its people continue to ensure that we have the best opportunities on this planet.

I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

You get guys that are good. Then you get guys that are excellent. And then you get AB de Villiers.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

I don't know what a losing habit is.

You work hard and you drill daily all the habits that you need to win at basketball and you're going to create a winning culture.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.

I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.

I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn't conform to the idea of 'halfway.'

I hate to do anything halfway so I leave the guitar alone.