Quotes About Achievement

At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad.

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.