Quotes About Excellence

Being a Real player is amazing, and just training next to the best players of the world have to make you motivate, and train as hard as you can.

Players like Messi and Xavi are always hungry. Whatever the game or the competition - even if it is table-tennis - they want to win. We used to play two-touch football games after training and they would always be desperate to win. It taught you about life as well as football.

Our standards at Bayern are extremely high, with every training session at very high intensity.

Messi could maybe get away with not trying 100% because he's the best player in the world. But he's the first at training. He's very professional. He was very good to watch and learn from.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.

I think 1:59 is something a human being can run. Or 1:58. Who knows?! If someone trains very well and thinks in a good way, then they can do anything.

The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I'll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.

Everyone has their own traits but if you are being compared to players like Rio Ferdinand then you must be doing something well and hopefully I can keep that going.

I feel like sport can transcend a lot of different things.

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

In what transcends this world, the best is Messi because he is incredible: he does things that nobody can do.

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.

I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.

The best way for me to help with my life principals of transparency, democratization, excellence and modernity. I think it has to be like that in every area.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does no bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Everything that is great is as rare to find as it is difficult to do.

Success without hard work is like sauce without salt