George McGovern Quotes

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

To me, when you're not as hungry to train hard and learn new things and get better as you once were, I think it's time to stop.

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

I want to leave a legacy, but to do that, I need to be on my best game.

I don't think it's about topping your last; I think it's truly about just doing your best. That's what I continue to do throughout my career.

You always want to play at the highest level possible and make the most of your career, and I felt like I did everything I could.

I think I've done a lot and I've proven myself.

I wanted to prove to myself I can do something on my own. Not for the world, but for myself. To have that self-confidence.

I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know.

I was always, you know, a decent player growing up. And yes, I was born with a certain amount of so-called 'natural ability.' But I also worked and sacrificed a lot to try to maximize what I was born with - which I think is important to point out.

I've found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked.

It kind of feels good to make something that you're proud of and it's also very real to you.

When my career is over, I want to say to myself that I've done whatever I could to be the best footballer I could be.

I was only a teenager when I played with the Herd and Humble Pie, and I was still in my early twenties when 'Frampton Comes Alive!' came out. That was an immense amount of work in a relatively short period of time. I needed to stop for a while and grow up, but I didn't do that.

I'm not satisfied in the sense I am not looking for any roles, but I do make peace with myself saying that 'I am not the best in the world.' But I have tried to give my best, and I want to get better.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

For me, whatever the outcome, it's nice to sit back to something and say, "Man, I'm really proud of that. I'm real proud of the experience that I had, I'm proud to be a part of something so iconic whether anyone watches it or not. They can't take away the experience that I had.

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.