Quotes About Excellence

Coming into the offseason, when I'm training, when things get hard, I know there's guys that are across the country, training and trying to be the best in the country and trying to be the best in the world. So that just motivates me to just keep going and keep working.

That's what really motivates me, being great.

With every great player in this league, it motivates you because you want to do well against them.

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

Competition is the best form of motivation.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

The biggest motivation for me is my desire to be the best.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

We're all trying to catch up with Beyonce. We're all running a race, and Beyonce is up there, and we're all just trying to run and get there. That's my motivation.

My main motivation is to prove I'm No. 1 in the world.

The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.

My motivation is like it is always, try to be the best and try to win, that is part of my character.

My motivation is to be the best I can be.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

In many fields, it is often the specialist—sometimes the monomaniac—who is most likely to produce the peak achievements

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and only uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men will know. - Thomas Wolfe

The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection;

preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection;

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

The only reason I enter an event is to win. It's not to make the cut or finish top 10 or even second. It's to win the event.

The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliance to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of powerful men like Lord Vader.

If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities.