Success Streak Quotes

The Houston team I was on - we were just rolling. We just hit the right stride at the right moment. And the Lakers team, we were rolling again.

When things are going good they just keep going good.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

I look at it like this, this is what keeps me going: You see a lot of guys who are being traded and they get waived once they get to the team. That's never happened in my career. So once I've gotten traded, I've been able to sustain a role. I've been wanted.

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.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it is, I've got a healthy attitude.

The initial two or three wins that you get really give you a surge in confidence. That helps for the following games.

Sometimes you just hit that form and everything goes in; you get chances and you're more ruthless with them, more clinical.

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.

I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.

It's definitely good to have a hit from time to time, though not too often. If you have a few hits in a row, people start to think every film you make will be a hit, which is a big mistake.