Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.
It feels so good to win, you want to do it again and again.
You can't repeat the success of any movie.
Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
We won back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006, and it was a fantastic achievement, a fantastic feeling. Once you experience that, you want to have it again.
But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.
First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.
I want that second World Series ring. I want to win again.
What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
To defend - it is very difficult to win two titles in a row.
I've been really fortunate to have coached in some moments that you can only dream about coaching in. The day after, you wake up and you try to do it again.
We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.
I was a fan myself, and I know what it's like. If someone comes out of the blocks and scores 31 goals in one season, then you think, 'OK, was that a one-off, or will he do it again?'
When you win, you want to repeat it.
When you taste winning the World Series, you want to do that every year.
Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.
It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.
Now I've won everything in the game I'm just trying to repeat the success.
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
