Quotes About Excellence

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

The real tough guys? They don't have to cheat. They get it done before the whistle.

As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself into the competition for the Rhodes scholarship.

Messi is the best in the world - there is no question about that.

There's no reason why I cannot do my best every game or every practice.

There's no reason to be involved in the sport if I'm not going to fight to my best ability.

Manchester United is the world's best club. There is no reason to move to any other team.

There is no reason why excellent pictures can't be made for $4-5 million.

It's no secret that the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is a huge dream of mine. There's been so many guys I looked up to - Pegasus Kid, Owen Hart, Liger, Prince Devitt, Kota Ibushi... the best of the best have held that belt.

Barry Hearn has said there's no time for playboys, but I'm not a playboy.

There are no words to describe Leo. He continues to break records every time one is put in front of him.

No-one wants to finish a job badly. If you know that you are going to finish your job in six months, then you want to finish well.

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Do what's best for you, and do it to the best of your ability - go after your goals like nobody's business.

Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well.

I understand there are bumps in the road. I understand there's a lot of noise that I don't want to listen to, and I just try to do my job to the best of my ability.

You want to win. Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

A Ballon d'Or nomination is one of the best things you can achieve as a player but I want to achieve more and more.

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.