Quotes About Progress

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

More than just a big adrenalin rush, it's more like, 'let's explore what's possible in our sport'.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.