Quotes About Achievement

I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

I skated like it's a sport, went for everthing and just gave it my best shot. It turned out freat. I had nothing to lose. You might be the best in your heart, but not in other people's sight.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.