Quotes About Achievement

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

To finish first, you must first finish.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.