Quotes About Success

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

No one ever won a game by resigning.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

To finish first, you must first finish.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.