Quotes About Excellence

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

To give anything less than your best is to give away the gift.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.

Look for every opportunity to go the extra mile. That's how you become extra special and extra successful.

Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control.

You might even be punished for performance that by any reasonable measure is truly excellent.

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don't see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.

You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.

It's hard to slack off when you have these guys out there going 100 miles an hour around the ice.

Let's say, for example, I'm playing ball but I decide to slack in school. I feel like that's going to carry over to baseball, that mentality. So I've always tried to put my nose down and just give everything I've got in whatever it is I'm doing.

As far as myself, I want to see myself hold a Grand Slam, be at the top of the game.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

As long as I know that I give my best every time, I can sleep well knowing that.

Give your 100 per cent. Whether you are working or with family and friends. Even if you are sleeping, you should give it your 100 per cent.

Every time you go out, you want to help your team, play your best and don't let any opportunities slide by.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

When you let that discipline slip you're going to have big problems on the field.

Better ingredients, better pizza - it's not a slogan. It's a way of life.

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.