Quotes About Achievement

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.