Quotes About Achievement

I've pretty much gotten to the top of my sport.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

I encourage girls to play sports and play hard.

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

The one that works the hardest comes out on top.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

I played sports in high school and in college.

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.