Quotes About Excellence

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

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The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man