Quotes About Success

For me, football is not about money - I want to win prizes.

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

As a player, you always want to win prizes.

You want to win all games, which means you want to win all cups and all prizes.

If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

I have a knack for winning prizes; it must be something Ive done!

It's an honor, really, to be a Pro Bowler.

I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

I want to make Pro Bowls, do all the great things.

The Olympics are the biggest thing in boxing and the more you do as an amateur, the better deal you get as a pro.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

I know I will have to prove I am the best and make history in pro boxing, but I have no doubts about it, as I did in the amateurs, and I will do it as a pro.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

I don't care how many followers you have, but if you're executing amazing makeup, and you're working day to day in the makeup world and really changing the makeup world, to me that qualifies as a pro.

Befriending Pro Bowlers and future Hall of Famers is pretty cool, but I'm just enjoying the ride, looking at every day in the NFL as a memorable moment.

It has always been my dream to make it as a pro.