Bob Richards Quotes

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

I don't know if I'll ever be as good as I was when I started Kogi, but I strive for that.

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

We strivin' for perfection.

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.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Demand excellence.

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I'm constantly looking for perfection.

When I do something, I don't want to be second best. That's the right way.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

We're always wanting to get better. I'm very much a perfectionist.

There's always stuff you can improve on. Even when you do something right you can always try to go out and do something better and improve.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.