Quotes About Success

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

Individuals score points, but teams win games.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams... This is success!

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.