Quotes About Excellence

I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

Normally, I focus on my job and focus on trying to help my team and trying to improve every training session and try to be as a good as I can.

In the SAS, if you're not good enough, you're graded out of it.

If I'm not the best D-lineman, it's not good enough for me.

Good is not good enough at United.

It's not good enough just to hold your head high because you're one of the highest-paid players in the NHL. It's not good enough to be one of the most popular guys in the NHL or to have a social media following. What are you trying to accomplish?

When it comes to United, if you don't win everything, it's not good enough.

I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.

I'm not interested in just putting out one hit.

I'm not interested in having the second- or third-largest mall in Cincinnati.

Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

When the whole team is doing well and you're at the top people take note of what you are doing.

You build a fan base over time, and they will accept you as long as it's good. Nothing matters as long as something's good. If it's bad, nobody will see it.

Every year you have to perform and win. There is nothing new for me as far as I am concerned. But the truth of the matter is you do have to perform, you do have to produce.

It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That's how I feel about Meryl Streep. You watch her, and you can't help but notice all of that about her. She's so influential.

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.

You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.