Quotes About Success

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

There is winning and there is misery.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.