Gareth Southgate Quotes

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

I wanted to be consistent in my career and not have an off year. I wanted to play well and be on top of things.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

I think it's important to do great work.

We simply must do better.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the 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.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

We're about winning and accountability.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

You need to perform consistently, and if you're raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.

Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.