Quotes About Excellence

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

I want my bowling to speak for me. In fact, not only my bowling, my batting, my fielding. Overall, I want my cricket to speak.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

Being able to overcome obstacles and to demand the most out of yourself is a quality that everyone needs to be successful.

If anyone has to overtake me, I'm glad that it is Messi.

Quality is free, but only for those are willing to pay heavily for it.

Quality, far beyond that required by the end user, is a means to higher productivity.

in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.

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The Caliphate produces only one thing of genuine excellence, and that product is fanaticism.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well."1 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

Do you want to be extraordinary? Do extraordinary things.

from where you are now to where you really want to be in life. Just as professional and Olympic athletes have coaches, I want to be your success coach, your trainer for life. My passion is to help you become a world-class human being, someone who pulls out all the stops in each area of life. Success Is Not an Accident is not a book about living the way most people live. You don't need a book to do that; it happens by default. If you live your life like most people do, you will get what

and insights on the pages that follow can be the difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary life. Now let's get started.

Now let's move a little deeper into the concept of Genius, and in particular, how it applies to your work. Your area of Genius is the specific point where what you enjoy doing most intersects with what you do best. This is where you are capable of making the greatest contribution in the world. Excellence is inevitable once you find this Genius.

The unexpected but dependable law that functions in most artistic endeavors: namely that the pursuit of excellence has an even stronger instinctual draw than the need for emotional self-preservation.

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Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Our society doesn't have the proper respect for magna cum laude

Do your best and forget the rest.