Quotes About Achievement

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Accomplishments have no color.

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve