Quotes About Excellence

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

Make each day a masterpiece.

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing

Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.

If a player appeared to be taking it easy in practice, I told him, Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

there are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

Coach Wooden never mentioned winning. It was always, "Fellas, we've got to play to our best. Let's do that." That's a lot different from saying, "Fellas, we've got to win." A lot different.

Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

don't worry much about trying to be better than someone else.

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

don't worry about whether you're better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become. You have control over that; the other you don't.

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.

SEEK SIGNIFICANT CHANGE       ââ'¬Â¢ Never be content with performance or results.       ââ'¬Â¢ Remove all excuses for getting to the next level. Don't say "no"; ask

will do the best I am capable of doing today to bring out my best tomorrow.

If you don´t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

You will find that success and attention to details, the smallest details, usually go hand in hand, in basketball and elsewhere in your life.

never dreamed about winning a national championship. It happened before I even thought it was possible. What I was dreaming about each year, if you want to call it that, was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be.

Set your standards high; namely, do the absolute best of which you are capable. Focus on running the race rather than winning it. Do those things necessary to bring forth your personal best and don't lose sleep worrying about the competition. Let the competition lose sleep worrying about you. Teach your organization to do the same.

I never dreamed about winning a national championship. What I was dreaming about was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be. My thoughts were directed toward preparation, our journey, not the results of the effort. That would simply have shifted my attention to the wrong area, hoping for something out of my control.