Quotes About Excellence

I learnt since I was a child growing up in a small village in the Czech Republic that I had to be like that to compete, to be the best and then to compete against the best. There has not been a second, a minute, an hour, a day that I have missed because I always wanted to improve.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

Any race I go into, I've always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

I think the biggest part of being on a sound system is wanting to always be the best.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Once you start compromising, once you start trying to keep cost lower, this is not luxury. Luxury is wanting the best and using the best materials with which to do that.

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.

I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.

We had a great dramatics department in school, so I did a lot of plays and theatre there. Later, when I was the captain of our student's ward, I figured out that if you find something you really love to do, you don't have to work for the rest of your life! You can just have fun and still excel in it because you enjoy what you do.

LaDainian Tomlinson, Hines Ward, Marion Barber, and a host of other black stars help the NFL shine brightly week after week.

I want to fight Andre Ward, Arthur Abraham, Gilberto Ramirez, I want to box the best.

The only person I'd be interested in boxing would have to be one of the best of the best. It would have to be, like, Andre Ward.

I think 'Greenleaf' has taken television up a notch all the way across the boards - from wardrobe and everything.

He lived it 100 percent. He had the watch. He had the wardrobe. He drove the Mercedes. He lived the lifestyle of a Horsemen, and it was one of those things that you knew when Tully Blanchard came through the curtain, you were looking at a professional. And he believed that his crap didn't stink.

My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box. Some people say, 'Feel your way into it; build it up.' No. My dad would say, 'Straight away, you have to be there.' And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.