Billy Sunday Quotes

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

What I'm trying to say, in general, I think, as long as you try as hard as you can and show that you can answer the call and run with the ball when you get it, there really is no limit.

I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.

You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

You can give a bunch of opportunities to people, but if they are not ambitious, nothing is going to happen.

It doesn't matter to me where I play. It matters what you do at the place you play at.

I am an instance of what is possible with a lot of hard work.

I don't think that people don't succeed; I think that it takes time! Everyone will have their time to shine!

Anyone can achieve it if they're given the opportunity to.

You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the role.

I believe you can do a lot even if you have a 15-minute part in a project.

I hope the Final Five has shown that everyone is capable of success if they work hard.

For me, it's not about price tags. It's about your individual qualities, how hard you work and it's important to make full use of the opportunities when they come.

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.