Quotes About Excellence

I think the best way to quickly describe my personality is that I'm a maximizer rather than a satisficer, i.e. I want to squeeze every drop out of an opportunity rather than settle for 'good enough.'

You enjoy that as a player, though, going up against the best, just try and see how you stack up.

You don't want to play in League One and League Two pitches - you want to play on a massive pitch in the Olympic Stadium with beautiful grass.

The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

It always starts with having great competitors on your team, in your front office, on your coaching staff.

Obviously, the hotel is related to my name, so my mom makes sure the staff, the service, the cleaning part of it is 100 out of 100. Not 99, 100 out of 100. We've got great reviews because of that. That's why a lot of people want to stay out our place, because we provide a lot of good services.

The coaching staff expected us to show up on time, give it our all and leave nothing out there. By all means play hard but work harder. That was part of the Liverpool Way.

They used to have a saying among the musicians on staff when I was with him, 'Sinatra never does anything the same way once.' He was a perfectionist, he was a taskmaster and he knew exactly what it was he wanted because he understood how to deliver his message to the audience; never was there a greater example of that than that man.

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.

I play the best and have the most fun when the stage is brightest.

One of my highlights of being a Proteas player is that at one stage we were the No. 1 team across all formats.

As a competitor, I always have to test myself on the biggest stages and against the best there is to offer.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

My number one goal was to be the best fighter ever in the Octagon. I think I can hold hands with many who can stake that claim.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

If you are considered as favourites, you have stand up and deliver. You can't make too many mistakes. You have to be the best.

These one-dayers and these Twenty20s is where Virat Kohli can really stand up and lead from the front.

I've trained with some of the best when it comes to stand up.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

Our goal is to set the gold standard when it comes to compliance.

Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.

I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.