Quotes About Excellence

Going in there just to win and put on a boring fight, I don't want to be related to anything like that.

The way I operate as a football player and the product that I put on the field in relation to the business that I conduct, I want it to be as tough as possible in practice so when I get into the games I've been there before.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

I think that relative to my normal levels of performance I am one of the best at being able to raise my game for the majors, and that what is giving me so much self-belief.

When something is great, then you can sit back after the work is done and relax, but during the process I definitely am making sure everything is really, really good.

I don't want to release anything unless it's amazing.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

The man who has done his best has done everything.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Juventus is an historic club that only fights to win.

I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon d'Or, that would be historical.

I'm focused on being the best, making history.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

Our job is to play as best as we can. And if that means hitting 1, 2, 3, then I'll do that at a high level in order for us to be able to win.

Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule.

I'm proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.

Canada is hockey.

I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.

It's not a conscious thing for me. But whenever I have the opportunity to bring it, I want to give more than the guy before me. Hockey. Off-ice stuff. Just life in general.

India is known for hockey all over the world.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.