Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend read more

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

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

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

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.