Quotes About Excellence

I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.

Just getting to the NFC Championship isn't good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.

The goal every season is to win a Super Bowl.

I want to be the best that I can be because I want to win a Super Bowl.

Coming here to the New York Jets, where my father once coached and was part of the Super Bowl III staff, is fantastic. I look around at the facilities and the people they have in place and see a first-class organization. I'm just proud to be part of it.

My goal is to win a Super Bowl. It's not to just win X number of games.

If you win the Super Bowl, you're the G.O.A.T to me.

Obviously you want to contend for a Super Bowl.

You go to the playoffs to win the Super Bowl. You don't go to the playoffs to win one game.

Our goal is still the same no matter what - win a Super Bowl.

Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That's pretty darn great.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

I respect Cristiano Ronaldo. He has had a superb career.

Don't write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Great men exist that there may be greater men.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.