Leroy Chiao Quotes

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.

It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

I've always had a plan. Even since, maybe, 12 years old. Really.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

I've got a long-term plan.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

I go to bed every night thinking about all the possible ways that I can succeed.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals.

Everybody got a dream. What's the plan?

My dream was to become a footballer, hope to become the best someday. And I worked for it. And I'll tell you that the work is the magic of success.

After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

You just need the freedom to dream big and a whole lot of hard work.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.