Quotes about achievement and success
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more, and they're demanding more, then it's terrible.
Some of us are meant to be world champions, and others just want to be on the team.
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice a gift.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle—when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then… even thought impossible.
Pain is part of the joy. You have to have some failures to enjoy success.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
It took me 20 years to realize that I did have the ability to win the race. Winning is not about the time. It's about everything coming together. Winning is about not being afraid of losing.
You've got to want to do it for yourself.
The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.
I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the last 20 years.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
Success is not something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.