Quotes about Achievement

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Victory lies not only in the end goal but in the steps of faith we take every day toward that goal.

Nothing worth having comes without a price.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.

I don't I don't really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It's all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it's what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else's opinion, they can kick rocks.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Champions make their own luck.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.