Quotes About Achievement

I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

I think the impact I make is to inspire Filipino female athletes that they can do it as well... A Filipina can be a sports hero.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I got good grades. I played sports.

If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

We play sports to win.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

When I think of those who were the greatest in their respective sports, it was their drive for perfection that made them the best.

In sports, you play until you can't win anymore.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.