Quotes About Excellence

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

The team with the best players wins.

Make every day your masterpiece.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.