Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

No matter what it is, I wanna be great. I wanna be be the best at it.

Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

When you love something, you're gonna be the best at it.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

I'm committed to try to make the product the best I possibly can.

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.

If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.

Winning's not easy. In order to win, you've got to see the best.

You want to be the best at something.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

I'm going to be an All-Star. I'm going to be a champion. Not just one, multiple times.

When you give your best, you can't ask for more.

I can honestly say I want to be one of the best to ever play the game.