Alex Rodriguez Quotes

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.

I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.

I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going.

It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.

I'm a goal-oriented person, and instead of focusing on the past, I'd rather focus on the future.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

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

I'm always moving forward.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

My way is to look forward, not back.

Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

I don't like to look back. I love the next challenge and don't keep awards. There are a few that are really important, but my parents have most of them.

The only thing that motivates me is to become better.