Quotes About Excellence

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

To me, the word profitable means sustainable - able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence.

My vision for Visy Tumut is not only to keep our position as an example of world's sustainable manufacturing, but to build on it.

I want to build a sustainable winning culture, in every facet.

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

I can sway the series with outstanding play, but we're all going to have to play over our heads.

Nothing is more important to me than the work itself. If I feel I am getting swayed too much, I take a step back... My focus is also on the performance.

Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence, and I swear to reflect that as well.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

Valegro just loves his job. I don't have to force him to do anything, I just sit there and steer, and off I go. There's no sweating, no pushing, no pulling. He knows his job, and it's just fantastic.

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

On the field, I got to play with some of the best players in the world, from Germany, Sweden, France - I can name five more countries.

My grandmother told me a long time ago, 'I don't care if you're sweeping a porch for a living.' She said, 'You need to do your best.' So I've lived by that every single day.

Trying to find the limit of yourself and the limit of the car and sometimes to exceed it and see the real limit - if you find that sweet spot and are able to repeat it, it is one of the best feelings.

Whatever other people expect me to do, whatever they're comparing me to, I don't care. I'm just trying to swim fast.

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

All the guys at this top level, they're pretty much dangerous all over the place. If you're not good all over the place, you'll be in a little bit of trouble. It's hard to swim at the top end if you're only good at one thing.

My mom was a swimmer growing up. She was World Class.

Katie Ledecky is the best swimmer in the world. You could say she's impressive with what she can do in a pool.

My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.