Quotes About Achievement

I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

Winning is a great deodorant.

When youre on top, youre on top.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.