Billy Casper Quotes

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

I'm not one of the guys in the league for the fame. I'm here so I can take of my family, my mom, my friends and take care of myself.

Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.

I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do... and pay my bills.

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn't stardom.

My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.

I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

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

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.