The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
Everyone must remember that when you experience success, you should never leave behind the cause of it - which is effort and dedication.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.
I don't have to use anything to motivate me, a trade or anything like that, for me to say I want to win a championship.
I'm not really focused on my ranking.
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.
If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
I can always do better. I can always find a way to make more plays and be more effective.
I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.
Everything I played, I kind of found a way to be pretty good at. My mom always said, 'If you're not good at something, then don't do it.'
Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
Rich people expect to succeed.
I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.
I put the most pressure on myself. I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.
Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
