Quotes About Success

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

Winning is a great deodorant.

When youre on top, youre on top.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.