Quotes about Excellence

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being... There are NO limits. There are plateus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

It is about doing everything you can so your body can perform at the highest level.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for beeing good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.