Quotes about Excellence

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

Not only did I play at a high level, I learned that personal discipline is the indispensable key for accomplishing anything in this life. I have since come to understand even more that it is, in fact, the mother and handmaiden of what we call genius.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

The market needs a super car with no excuses.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

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

Dr. Martin Luther King said, 'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.