Quotes about Success

If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.

I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

I come from an almost unknown village near Rohtak called Madina, and that is where I started my wrestling career.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

I've been lucky to be born in Spain to a good family. But some team-mates reached the same position from a tough background. Football is equal, and it doesn't matter where you come from.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

After my first track event, sports became my life.

It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It's not a trade-off between success and sleep.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.