Quotes About Success

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain - that's the peak, the climax of everything.

I felt like when I retired, I was still one of the best in the world and competing at the highest level. I think it's best to bow out and have people remember you at your peak.

Even when I was at the peak of my career, I was never in the race to be number one.

It's just kind of ironic with how I came into the NBA with all the expectations. You would've thought coming in the way I did that my career would last long. You'd think I'd have my more peak years in the beginning or middle. Mine just came a little later.

Conquering Island Peak was very important as it increased my confidence.

No one wants to be the person who peaked in high school!

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

The only two times we have peaked above world average is when we got to No. 1 in the world in 2011 and when we got to No. 2 in the world in 2004 under Michael Vaughan.

Mountaineering helps in developing confidence and when I scaled Mt. Everest, I saw many people connecting with me which inspired me to scale all peaks across the globe.

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

I was very excited, but I didn't really think I could get the work in 'Peanuts.' Still, I really, really wanted it, because I knew I could do it. And I got it.

If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.

It is important for me to help others because I was also helped by others before I became part of the Black Eyed Peas.

I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

I've put myself on this pedestal from the start.

It feels great to be on the same pedestal as Madhuri Dixit.

When you are a successful footballer, you get put on a pedestal. You are the person your friends and family look up to, and they do not know how to approach you when things are going wrong, even when you just need someone to reach out to you and ask you if you are all right.

If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.

In 2010, I put CrossFit on a pedestal and then, when I failed at it and got second, it was hard for me.

Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.

People get some success, they get some money, they get some power, and they put themselves on this pedestal above other people. They forget people and try to fit in with their new crews they think they need to be around with. I didn't believe that. I'm still human being.

I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.