Quotes About Achievement

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.

You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.