Quotes About Achievement

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

I'm a big believer in the whole world of sports.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.