Quotes About Excellence

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

I always try to associate Johnny Mundo, John Morrison, or whatever my name is with high quality.

I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

I watched video of Calvin Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald and Brandon Marshall, big guys who do it well. I wanted to try to be better than them.

Every time I join the Selecao I try to maintain my good form and prove why I was called up.

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

Cristiano Ronaldo joined United a year after me. He was ultra-confident, with the talent to back it up. He was dedicated, too, and practised as hard as anyone after training. You could tell that he wanted to be a great player, the greatest.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.

There are runners and there are runners… and then there's Gale Sayers."

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

In the preceding century, the philosopher al-Kindi had defined wisdom as the "the excellence of the (rational) power, the knowledge of the universals in their realities, and the employment (in action) of the realities that must be employed.

2002 report on Competing for Service from the Healthcare Advisory Board, this topic heads the list as the most requested topic for future reports. Their 1998 Report on Service Excellence was their all-time best-seller.

The Disney Approach to Quality Service for the Healthcare Industry.

They were all copies of originals made by the British Admiralty, and the best in the world.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

This secret spoke Life herself unto me 'Behold,' said she, 'I am that which must ever surpass itself.'

Every time we hire someone, he or she should raise the bar for the next hire, so that the overall talent pool is always improving,

Do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes talent. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You can't compare were you don't compete.

Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.