Quotes About Achievement

A win doesn't always come exactly how you want it to, but it's a win nonetheless. And anyone who doesn't think so, I don't even know what to tell them.

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I've run 1,000 miles in Baja, and that's pretty much nonstop.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

That's what I actually like about boxing: no matter how well you do, you can still have a normal life.

I feel like once my career is all done and dusted, and I've done everything I could have possibly done, then that's my glory. Then I can live, and have a normal life, and go have kids. I love wrestling, but when that day comes, I'm going back home and I'm starting a family.

I was determined that I was going to have a successful and normal life.

When Leo takes the record from me, it will hurt a little. But it's not just anyone taking it away. It's not a normal person. A Martian is taking it from me. That makes me feel a little better.

As a human, yeah, it's awesome. You grow up and you are in Little League, and you want to make the all-star team; you go to college, and you want to make the all-star team. So any normal person would want to do it on the biggest stage and highest level. And I'm a normal person. I haven't changed there.

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

Normally I provide a lot of assists and do a lot of dribbling - but it's always great when you score a goal.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

Normally, my goal is to get past the first round, because that's the hardest.

Life normally rewards you for hard work.

When you're going a bit higher than you think you normally can, and you can feel the adrenaline and excitement of the public, that's really great.