Quotes about Excellence

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Still I saw not how that righteousness, which good and holy men obeyed, did far more excellently and sublimely contain in one all those things which God commanded, and in no part varied; although in varying times it prescribed not every thing at once, but apportioned and enjoined what was fit for each.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Once you join the team, you live at a certain standard that I play the game and I wasn't going to take anything less. When people see this, they gonna say, He wasn't really a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant. Well, that's you, because you never won anything. I wanted to win, but I wanted them to win and be a part of it as well.

My mentality was to go out and win, at any cost. If you don't want to live that regimented mentality, then you don't need to be alongside of me. Coz I'm gonna ridicule you until you get on the same level with me, and if you don't get on the same level, then it's gonna be hell for you.

I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'

We needs must love the highest when we see it.