Quotes About Achievement

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.

Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

What drives me is winning championships.

As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff.

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

My theory on momentum is that the best way to produce it is through small, hard-fought victories that lead to bigger battles and bigger wins. Winning builds momentum.

You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.

My aim is to be the best in the world and perform in each of Pakistan's wins.

It will never be much fun until a Proteas team finally goes out and wins one of these ICC limited-overs tournaments. That will happen one day.

The line between winning and losing is very thin, and wins give you prestige, stability, and continuity.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.