Quotes About Excellence

I would like to give my best and score as many goals as possible.

I was the best player in the world, top scorer in the world and Europe.

I am at my best when I am scoring.

You have to have something about you to perform in Scotland. I'm sure these foreign players are excellent but we don't know how they're going to perform.

It would be a tough fight for either Scott Quigg and Carl Frampton against Rigondeaux. He's too good for his own good though and that's why he's been avoided.

I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

When you have the top show your scripts have to be more than competitive. They should be the best.

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

Sean's a great, great writer.

I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

I want to be choosier. I can't let quality take a back seat... not after 'Kaaka Muttai.'

When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest.

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

It took me a long time to figure out that I didn't have to do everything, that it was actually a lot more helpful if I did a couple things really, really well than a whole bunch of things really badly, or nothing at all, because the whole thing was overwhelming.

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple as reading another book each month or attending a seminar each year. On the other hand, it also means acknowledging what 'average' actually is and how you, as the owner, arrive at that figure.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.

I've seen 'Goodfellas' a hundred times, and one of the things that I take away from that movie is dynamic pacing and energy. I just think that film is sort of a paragon of excellence in filmmaking and the compression of narrative.

I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.