Quotes About Excellence

I think you can look good and still be a champion and still fight and still be the best at what I do.

Any time you get to play a champion like Serena, it's amazing.

It was a pleasure to share the court with Serena; she's such a champion.

I don't want to lose to an average champion. I want to lose to a great champion.

In order to be the champion, you've got to play the best, you've got to beat the best.

My goal is to be the best champion possible and to do that I have to go against the best.

It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

Everyone is at their best against the champions.

There have been great champions in every generation.

It seems easy, but to win three Champions Leagues in four years is incredible.

If you are champions, you have to work harder than before.

A guy like Anderson Silva is one the greatest champions we've had.

We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.

Right from the beginning I wanted to test myself against the best, against real champions.

If you become world champions, there is nothing to top that. It's the result of many years of work, good decisions inside the association, good training and good players.

A win against the champions is always special.

I grew up with champions around me, so I knew what it was like to be ambitious and to work very hard.

I always give my best in training as if it was a Champions League final.

The Champions League is where the best players in the world come together.

To put your team in the top level of the Champions League is special.

It's not enough to be top in your league if you don't do anything in the Champions League.

Always, against top teams, if you play well, and especially in the Champions League, it's good.

Obviously the Champions League is the top of football, where everyone wants to play.