Quotes About Success

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Less effort in this game makes more results.

Don't overstate your likely achievements; when in doubt, understate them.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.

There are two important things for full success in life: 1. Don´t tell everything you know.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

Life is just like a game, First you have to learn rules of the game, And then play it better then any one else.

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.