Quotes About Excellence

Organizations Succeed When They Become More Than the Sum of Their Players. That's one of the real tests of any leader, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. No team will consistently succeed unless the leader is able to achieve this critical goal.

Remember That a Great Quarter in Basketball or Business Starts with a Great Minute.

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.

Drawing up plans such as these diagrams is the easy part. I did it thousands of times. Creating a successful organization with people who execute the plans at a level of Competitive Greatness—now, that's the challenge of leadership.

Even at 94, I want to be the best I can be, and hard work is the only way to make this happen.

If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?

Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!

Our teams at UCLA had four perfect seasons, but we never played a perfect game, never played as well as we could. That's perfection. We didn't reach perfection, but we constantly strove toward it.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

Do your best when no one is looking.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

My father always used to say to me, it doesn't matter what the profession is, but if they're the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

Be larger than your task.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.