Quotes About Achievement

When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.

People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.