Quotes About Success

Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

You play to win the game.

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

Joining Real Madrid is a dream come true.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.