Quotes About Achievement

I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I've spent 34 years associated with the Cubs, and part of the reason I've stayed in baseball is because I want to be part of a World Series winner.

We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.

We want to win a World Series for Detroit. That's our goal.

When we build that foundation for sustained success, and it ultimately results in a World Series, it's going to be more than just a World Series.

I definitely want to be in a place where I can win long-term and be a part of World Series teams for many years to come.

I want that second World Series ring. I want to win again.

I think when you have a National Championship Game, a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series, I don't see why there is any reason to pick out one individual as the MVP because it is about a team winning a championship. Maybe that best explains what I believe in at the core in my work as a broadcaster.

I think the most important thing is that World Series.

Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some of the reasons kids would always say they want to grow up to be just like Derek Jeter.

Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.

All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.

You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that's all you've done, what have you got to show for it?

When you're a kid, you just hope you make it to the big leagues. So to get to go say you're going to play in the World Series, it's an incredibly special moment. Up there with getting married and having kids, it's right up there with one of the best days of my life.

We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.

Time and time again, I see former teammates, and we talk about it. It feels like we are all on the same page: We enjoyed the regular season, but we were disappointed in not making the World Series.

We all remember the people who won the World Series and not the guy who struck out.

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame so much, overcame centuries worth of issues and won a World Series, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean we're still not just prone to the laws of nature and reality and baseball.

At the end of the day, the most important goal is to get to the World Series and to win the World Series.

My No. 1 thing is to win a World Series. The rest comes as it comes.

We play to win the World Series, and that's our goal.

Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.