Al Oerter Quotes

That's my goal, to feel like I've done the best I could. When I've done that, anything else that happens is a bonus.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

We can't control everything in our lives. Sometimes you're No. 2, 3, 4 or 5. That doesn't matter. What matters is that you strive to be No. 1.

I'm somebody who tries to remain positive and looks forward to setting goals and reaching them. But that's easier said than done.

You've just got to do the best that you can.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

I try to do my best.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

We were in an atmosphere in the household that you could accomplish anything you set your mind to. If you were willing to put in the hard work, nothing was beyond your grasp.

Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?

I just want to do my best.

Self-belief is the key to success and that has helped me. So I will put in all my efforts in the manner I know. If it works, it is great and if it doesn't it's still great as I know I have put in all my effort.

Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway.

Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

I believe that thinking positively and envisioning the best possible outcome can add to your achievements.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.