Earl Campbell Quotes

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

There's not much point breaking records if, in the end, it doesn't mean anything.

What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!

I have achieved everything that I ever wanted to accomplish in this game and more so, for me, I have been fulfilled.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

I want to do really good things with my life.

I'm motivated by very small successes.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it.

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.