- Goa quote: “My aim is to do the best. Doing my best is just a tool.”

“I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.”

Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player

“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”

Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American singer and film actor

In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends" CBS News.com (20 May 1998) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/05/20/entertainment/main9899.shtml

“I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.”

LeBron James (1984) American basketball player

“I am doing my best to glorify the scamp or vagabond.”

Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 12
Context: I am doing my best to glorify the scamp or vagabond. I hope I shall succeed. For things are not so simple as they sometimes seem. In this present age of threats to democracy and individual liberty, probably only the scamp and the spirit of the scamp alone will save us from being lost in serially numbered units in the masses of disciplined, obedient, regimented and uniformed coolies. The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him.