Byron Nelson Quotes

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

The most successful people are so original.

You have to be different, great or first.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

Mediocrity is underrated.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great … is…the higher achievement.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.

I always pull for the best of the best.

To be first is something special.

With some many talented people around, it is difficult to cut through competition and stand out.

I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.