Quotes About Excellence

I am always pleased to talk about Buffon. He is an extraordinary player, a professional with values.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

I just have to play smart and play the best I can. I think that will be plenty good enough.

I have to plot my path to greatness.

If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.

Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to be.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

Every single race that I get on the podium in biathlon, I'm shocked.

I want to be the guy that's taking names, on the podium, and winning events.

At the end of the day, standing on the Olympic podium on the top is what we're all really searching for here.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

If someone wants to call me a Harlem Globetrotter, well, great, go ahead. I was very good at basketball. I was a really good point guard. I was the best passer.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.

Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

I took care of business in the classroom and on the field.

When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.