Quotes About Excellence

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

The key to success is to stay clean at all times.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Everything is important- that success is in the details.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.