Quotes About Excellence

Inches make champions.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Maybe they hate me because I'm too good!

I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.

But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

Success is in the details.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

Make today your master piece.

I would be the best of us, the highest of the lows.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.