Quotes About Achievement

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

Less effort in this game makes more results.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

Don't overstate your likely achievements; when in doubt, understate them.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine

Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...