drive for excellence Quotes

The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

I have a singular focus, I'm a perfectionist, and I always want to prove I am the best and the best version of myself.

I've played in France. There, in many matches everybody is already happy if he can secure a point. Here, in Germany? Forget it! Everybody wants to win. The last-placed team in the standings would take any match with the ambition to win it. That makes it so hard, even for the best teams in the league.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

The motive of success is not enough.