Quotes About Excellence

The Olympics has solely been around other sports as far as Great Britain has been considered.

The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.

There's something about 'Free Solo' that I look at the craft around it, and I'm really proud.

If Leo is at his level, it's going to be very difficult to find a solution to stop him.

I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

I want somebody to push me and grill me and extract a performance out of me which nobody expects.

I want to be a great player someday.

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

I love all motor sports at the top level.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you, " and I was now living that mantra.

A good rule always describes the ideal performance.

There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.

A woman who has nothing to recommend her is as rare as one who is perfect in every way.

Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think [and speak] about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others" (Phil. 4:8 LB).

They were respected by their neighbours for their conformity to the fashion of the day, for their morals, for their wealth, and for their excellence at all kinds of sport.

No matter how good the message may be, it will be useless unless it is done well (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.