Excellence : (21) " It’s a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence – the best in man. My subject is very valid. It’s about people, and about life. " - LeRoy Neiman " I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! " - Lou Holtz " It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism. " - Jon Landau " An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company. " - Richard Branson " Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come. " - Anastasia Soare " None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance. " - John C. Calhoun " OM was really sort of at the cutting edge. They have the best quality, the highest performance, the longest list of technology measurements you can gather – so we felt like they were the right partner for us. " - David Lauren " The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. " - Henry Rollins " We love football because the game of football is better than it has ever been, and is somehow managing to attain, at the same time, an apogee of opprobrium and excellence. " - Tom Junod " I don’t want an underachiever working on my car’s transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel. " - John Ridley