Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.