Quotes About Achievement

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

George Morris is a legend. I was lucky enough to have been on a number of his U.S. show-jumping teams and am constantly trying to learn from him.

People like being on winning teams.

I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

I've given it all from my combine to my pro day to my meetings with teams.

I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.

You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game.

A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.

If talented people across teams, functions, and geographies share the same passion and dedication, the results can be remarkable.

I ended up staying 10 years in Boston. It was nine as GM but 10 years there. That seemed about right: long enough to try to make a difference and try to contribute to winning teams and some championships.

Every single member of my Artistry and Pat McGrath Labs Brand Teams - making this dream a reality would not be possible without them.

Ultimately, I ended up playing for three NFL teams. That's something I'm proud of, just to get to that level.

Larry Page, Brian McClendon, and the Google Maps teams have been following our progress closely and are excited about what we've accomplished.

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.

In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.

My sisters were very successful and confident. It was, 'Oh, you are Pippa's brother! Are you Catherine's brother?' And so I was automatically put into the top sports teams and academic sets.

I've learned that if you don't have anyone opposing your work, if you don't have anyone thinking, 'Man, that should be me. I could do that. I should have thought of that, or they must have teams of people doing it for them,' your work simply isn't reaching enough people to be relevant.

I was captain of the soccer and basketball teams in high school, and I was the equivalent of class president.

It's a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.