Quotes About Excellence

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.

Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.

In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It's your time; you do your best.

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

My dad is a phenomenal skier.

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

It's incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We're all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it's just hundredths that count. Maybe it's just one finger or a hand can change the color of a medal.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill.

If you want to be the best gymnast in the world, you have to love the moment. Every single moment that you are competing. Every skill, you have to be showing it off. If you aren't showing it off, what are you doing?

Getting back to 100 per cent is one thing, but working at 100 per cent is something else entirely. And given one of my main goals has always been improving my skill set, to do that, I need to be working out at 100 per cent.

All we have is our talent. That's what's great about the division, you can see things that 125-pound guys can do that some other guys can't. All we have is our skill.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

The better the competition is, the more skilled guys are, the more fundamental you have to be.

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.