Quotes About Excellence

I'm not interested in world domination. I'm interested in running a nice little brand that takes care of its own and does really good work.

If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.

I'd like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.

The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

Adam Peaty is far and away the best swimmer in the world, and he's British. He set a world record - but the day after we were talking about my dress.

I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.

Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

I feel like I'm the Tim Duncan of boxing.

You talk about Shaq, I would put Tim Duncan in that same category. Mr. Fundamental, just kept things simple. He is a great teammate, a great player, and a great person. When you have those ingredients in a champion, you just want to be a part of that and have an opportunity to play with him.

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

I think everybody's ideal is to have a wonderful career with one franchise, like Kobe and Tim Duncan.

Tim Duncan and Steve Smith made me feel like an All-Star.

I feel a responsibility to not only live up to expectations, but the standard of which the likes of Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili have set for us.

There is no secret. It is all about doing the same things time and time again. It is all about doing the best every day.

What I learned growing up in Red Mountain Theatre Company is real power and time management and how to represent myself well. How to show up earlier and stay later. Red Mountain Theatre Company, in my opinion, is the most incredible theater conservatory in the world.

I love legends. I love reading up on the greats in their time period. I think, 'Man, what it would be like to live when they were competing and see them at their best!'

I want to make something great. I want to make something that I can be proud of in 10 years, something that is timeless.

That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.