Quotes About Excellence

Maya Moore is one of the greatest champions in basketball, male or female.

I want to be great - in everything I do. As far as football, I always looked up to Kellen Moore of Boise State. I thought it was the coolest thing that he was the winningest QB of all time.

When someone has 100 international games more or less in a row then that's top class.

My main goal is to be the No. 1 American and the No. 1 player in the world. If an American is on top of the leader board every week, it will bring more people into the game of golf.

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.

Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.

Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

Being a Horseman isn't something you put on in the morning and take off at night. It's a state of mind. It's excelling to the best of your ability. It's four individuals thinking singularly, acting collectively.

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

I was just really excited to win the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m in Moscow and then, to top that off, to win the Diamond Race in the 100m and 200m.

Our goal has never been to make the most. It's always been to make the best.

Get there first with the most.

One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best.

I try to cheat up. If I'm going to have something that's 'off the plan,' then I want it to be the best piece of bread or the most amazing ice cream.

The Champions League, for me especially, is the most beautiful competition.

When the 'Superfly' flies, it's the most beautiful thing in the world, brother.

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

You have to have people around you that motivate you that you want to play really hard for and always play at the highest level.

I'm motivated to be No. 1.

I was never motivated by a contract. I was motivated by being the best. So I just compete against myself every day and push to get better.

If I see that everything the director does is motivated by trying to achieve the best, I can accept anything.

When one performs well, the others are automatically motivated to give their best.

When I was a rookie, what motivated me was trying to win Rookie of the Year and play the best that I could that I would compete so hard.