Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
You live once... Why not live to be great?
In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.
Be not content with what you have or are.
If I was going to start over, then I wanted to go somewhere I could get better and win and see if I was a really good player. That's why I came to Duke.
From Day 1 since I was in middle school, it's just to get better every day and not settle for anything, try to get better, try to improve, and try to stay hungry. That's not going to change.
First be best, then be first.
Go where you add value. Don't look for places where you're just like everybody else.
Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.
Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.
My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.
The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.
If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.
I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by.
You never know what your best is. I can't limit myself to a 60 and say it is my best. If I can chase any total and if I win matches for India, then only it would be my best.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.
