Quotes About Excellence

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Design means being good, not just looking good.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.

I am The Game and I am that damn good!

Be persistent in good actions.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.