Elite Status Quotes

To be the cream of the crop is no easy feat. It's a big deal.

You might be an elite-level athlete in the room, but if no one gets to see you display your craft it doesn't matter.

First Team All-Defense, that was great, that was one of my goals coming into this league, and I've got that a couple times. But First Team All-NBA, that's bigger than a lot of things; that's bigger than being an All-Star.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.

Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

All you have to do is anesthetize the masses by telling them they’re an elite, that they’ve got a mission, that they’re making history, that they’re fulfilling their destiny and fighting for a better world — and they swallow it like lambs — even when a guttersnipe says it.

Being an All-Star is everything.

Rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

With Singaporeans, you speak English, you're well-educated, the doors open everywhere.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

This is a special class right here, to be an All-Star in the NBA. I don't think anybody would have thought when I was coming in the league that I would get this accomplishment. This is special. I don't know where I would rank it, but it's definitely high on the list.

I've always been an elite artist.

I get to actually say I am a Stanford man. There's no if, ands, or buts about it.

I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

Every time I fly first class, I'm like, 'Damn dude, this is sick!'

I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

It's part of being an elite player, you get attention.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

I'm in the major league now.

It's a privilege to be an All-Star for the second straight year.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.