Quotes About Excellence

I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.

As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to practice a lot.

If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

We're all doing it for the love of the sport. We want to make Canada proud. I'm so fortunate to skate in a country like Canada.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.