Quotes About Achievement

John snatched the rebound, spun, jumped, slammed. He pumped his fist in victory. "Ring it up! Two hundred seventy-four to one thirty-seven!" In John's game, each shot is worth one hundred and thirty-seven points.

John snatched the rebound, spun, jumped, slammed. He pumped his fist in victory. "Ring it up! Two hundred seventy-four to one thirty-seven!" In John's game, each shot is worth one hundred and thirty-seven points. "If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!

You stay calm and make it happen.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

LEARNING IS DISCOVERING THAT SOMETHING IS POSSIBLE

The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand

When you're young the future is a mountain to climb. Once there though you realize all the beauty was in the climb itself.

Natural order is pregnant with potentially great answers. Chaos is only fertile when it produces answers to achieving natural order

The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot

It had been said that the marathon doesn't really begin until mile twenty. I say mile twenty-six would be more appropriate. The final two-tenths of a mile is filled with emotion. No matter how desperately you're struggling at this point, thoughts typically drift away from the immediate task at hand (ie, survival) to broader feelings.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. If you want to talk to God, run an ultra.

I didn't go up there to die, I went up there to live.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot The

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

All racers are runners, but not all runners are racers.

If it comes easy, if it doesn't require extraordinary effort, you're not pushing hard enough: It's supposed to hurt like hell.

Life is at its most extraordinary during the struggle, not during times of idle contentment

Your Gift opens the road of success to you and access to many people.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.