Jimmy Johnson Quotes

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The secret of success is to do a common thing uncommonly well.

If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.

You will stand out if you do your part well.

I do think you can't be as good as the person next to you to play: you have to be better.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

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.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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.

Demand excellence.

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

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Excellence always sells.