Lothar Matthaus Quotes

By working hard, age is just a number.

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

I play to win.

I'm happy where I'm at now, but I want to show the world that I'm the No. 1 fighter. I want to prove it the world. I'm focused and ready.

You don't step back and have less motivation when you get older, the opposite is true. You become more focused, more professional in terms of things like looking after your body and more determined because you can see all the younger players coming up, looking for your place.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

What keeps me going is goals.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.