Shahid Khan Quotes

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

I enjoyed my 15 years at the top, and now I enjoy watching the current crop. What I did, maybe they can't do, and what they do, perhaps I couldn't do. It's like that. I wanted to simply be the best. On a professional level, I wanted to be No. 1, and I worked hard to be that.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy.

Maybe some people think that it's all about the hype, about the fame, but it's not. It's all about being the best. It's all about challenging myself everyday.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

Being the best is:applying yourself to your potential, putting out the best version of yourself.

I've always felt like, you know, there's this imaginary wall that we ourselves put up or others do by saying that we can't do something.

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves.

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it's being a person that can work with others and not give up. And, for me, that was part of it too.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.