Jim Otto Quotes

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

It's not about how many games we win with me as captain, it's about us being consistently getting better over a long period of time and looking to be that number one side in the world.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

I truthfully think, a consistent coach over 30 years, probably, I'd rather be that than having one championship and mediocrity for years.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.

It's difficult to keep going the good results, to feel good every tournament, every year in row.

I've experienced it with Chelsea Women: it can be very hard at the top for long periods of time, fighting just to stay in the same position and to preserve an unbeaten run that will always come to an end.

Almost every Grand Slam, I'm in second week, which is pretty positive for me.

My goal every year is to come in and be consistent. It doesn't matter if it's the first game of the year or it's the last game of the year.

Anytime you win 10 games, let's look around the world, the country, and there's not a lot that do it consistently.

Any team that's consistent over time, you have to respect what they have.

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

At United, there has been continuity with the manager, with the success they have had. It gives them a different dynamic.

Goals can help lift me to be one of the best two or three in the world, most definitely. You score the goal that wins the football match five, six, seven times a season: you are one of the best in the world. And that's what I need to do. I need to keep being consistent.

Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.

It is obviously always nice to start in a strong way, but it's also very important to keep that strength during the year - the season is quite long, from March to November.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?