Quotes About Excellence

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.

A bit of nervousness is essential as in a way it helps you deliver your best.

I will never give up on football that is played well.

When you dance with Arjun, the bar is set so high that you need to really push yourself to match up to him. Nevertheless, it's always fun to dance with him.

For me, every time I step on the stage it feels like a battle is about to start. It's not like we're going on stage to fight against our audience obviously, because for me, when I go on stage, I'm always trying to reach a new level of how am I going to make today a great night for everyone that's present.

Chelsea are always competing to win things and that was my thought to push myself and reach a new level.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

If there's a good player in New York City, he needs to come to St. John's if he wants to play the best basketball.

If you're not competitive, if you're not out to make a mark, you shouldn't be in the news business.

I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

I would always ask Rob Pelinka what Kobe was doing to be who he was. How to get his game to the next level - how does he get that good?

I have always gone above and beyond, whether I've been given 30 seconds or 30 minutes, but at some point, you have to deliver and go to the next level.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

There's no such thing as 'next time we'll do it better.' Do it better this time.

My first three years at United were pretty much flawless. In the first we won the treble and I finished top scorer: I was walking on cloud nine. I came back the next year and scored 26 goals.

But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

I would not want compliments that 'I can do different roles'. I want compliments that whatever I did, I did nicely. That's how I see acting.

It's why Nick Price was my favourite golfer growing up. He managed to win majors, get to world No1 but did so with a nice-guy image. He showed that the two are not mutually exclusive.

I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard.