Quotes About Excellence

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

A man must constantly exceed his level

I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.