Quotes About Achievement

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

I think about what I've accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I'm accomplishing my goals.

Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated - 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.

I've said this: If Jim Leyland had been in my place, he'd have the 2,000 wins and I'd have 1,000. Leyland is the greatest.

After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night!

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.

It's changed from one-hit wonder to 'Greg Rutherford wins events.' That's what I've always wanted, that level of recognition.

I love playing the game. I always have. Of course, winning matches makes it much sweeter. The wins and the losses always lead to these big moments, unless you're Serena Williams.

I look at that 10 PGA Tour wins, and I say to myself, 'That's not enough,' and it isn't enough for me. It's just 10. I want more than 10.

We've talked before what is important is week in, week out, getting wins and getting better.

If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.

In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.

It's not always about wins and losses, but winning two Survivor Series matches is something I will never forget.

Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.

It's amazing - 2015 has been a fantastic year for me because of the records I've broken and the wins I've had.

I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.

Whoever wins MVP, whoever wins whatever those awards are, that's not my decision.

The longer I'm in this sport, the more I realize that it's not about the wins and losses that makes you a good fighter. It's about putting the time in and fighting the best guys possible and going after them. The outcome will take care of itself.