Quotes About Achievement

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

You play to win the game.

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

Joining Real Madrid is a dream come true.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.