Sonny Perdue Quotes

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

I am working hard to keep making progress, to always improve.

It is not a secret that I want to get better every day with every game.

You have to want to improve all the time.

There's always things to improve, you can't be satisfied with what you have.

A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

My will is to always be better and better and better. I've got the will to want to be the best.

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better.

The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.