I was an above-average student who excelled in basketball…

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

— Michael Bennet

I loved sports, but I excelled at basketball. We'd nail an old crate onto a wooden board and that was our basket and backboard.…

— Dawn Staley

I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted…

— Chris Geere

I excelled in English while I was at school.

— Jamie Bell

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers…

— Bat for Lashes

“Playing the villain was the only thing he’d ever really excelled at.”

— Holly Black

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

— Livy

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

— Pat Metheny

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

— Baltasar Gracian

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races.…

— Dorothy Hamill

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

— Samuel Johnson

Both Murali Vijay and KL Rahul are quality players. They have excelled not just at home but also abroad.

— Mayank Agarwal

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well.…

— Meta Golding

With my mom's and my dad's genes, me and my brother excelled in a lot of sports.

— Trinity Rodman