Quotes About Achievement

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

Football is like life and I know life.

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.