Borns Quotes

We want to be better than 7-9. Honestly, 7-9 is not going to cut it.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

Every time we record, and every time we go out live, we try and beat what we've already done.

I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.

My restlessness leaves my mind racing as I try to wind down at the end of mandatory recovery day. It keeps me tossing after poor performances. And if I played well, well... playing well makes me itch to play better; there is always room for improvement.

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

You're always striving to play that perfect match.

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

My will is to always be better and better and better. I've got the will to want to be the best.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

No competition, no progress.

Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.