Quotes About Excellence

I played hockey with the best of them.

I don't think you're going to see any hockey player tell the media or anyone they're the best player in the world. It's just not who we are.

I don't just want to be a drag-flicker. I want to be become a complete hockey player.

I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player in the league.

If your best players are taking a shortcut, they're going to have problems holding everyone else accountable and responsible.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

I've been with clubs who won the league championships in Holland and England, which was brilliant, and to win the Champions League with Manchester United was an amazing experience.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

If I was just a guy who hit 24 home runs and drove in 100, I wouldn't be a special player.

I was, like, the guy who sat at the front of the class and did his homework and did everyone else's homework and got A grades.

What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.

I honor Billy Graham. He is a category by himself.

It's a great honor even to be compared to such amazing artists as 2NE1.

I like to do everything to the best and to the extreme, and for me that's a big part of why I came to Ring Of Honor.

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.

I'm honored to be compared to some great running backs, but I try to block that out and be myself.

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

It's an honour, of course, to play against the biggest players in the world.

They called me Little Milla. He was one of the best in the world, not just in Africa. A lot of us think he did not win the best player in the world award just because he was African. It was an honour to have the name - he was an inspiration.

I always wanted to be the best at what I did; I wanted that at university, I wanted the first-class honour and to be the best in class.

Cristiano is a fantastic player, maybe the best. For me it is a great honour to play with him. You just have to pass him the ball and he does the rest.