Quotes About Excellence

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

There are many Superstars - past and present - I would love to get in the Swing.

If there is someone who is able to swing the ball, I believe I have it in me to swing it a bit more than the other bowlers.

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

Few players hit the swinging forehand volley as often, or as well, as Maria Sharapova.

I would not switch Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson for any other player in Norway.

Your focus has to switch to being as good as you can be for your club.

When I say I gave it my all in Sydney, I really did.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service.

To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive.

I was No. 1 in college at Syracuse. I've been No. 1 a lot.

Just do what you do best.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

Once you relize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best

Athletes are very cool to me.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellence, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

there is often not so much perfection in works composed of many pieces and made by the hands of various master craftsmen as there is in those works on which but a single individual has worked.

Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare.