Clint Dempsey Quotes

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

I want to become more successful.

When you are 21 years old, and you work as a good professional, you must improve.

My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.

There are so many things that I still want to do. My foundation, growing my brand . . . the list is endless. I'm honestly busier now than I was when I was swimming. It's kind of weird, but I feel like more of an adult because I have to do stuff every day. Whether it's checking emails or making phone calls or doing this and that, it's fun for me. It's the start of a new chapter. At times, it is frustrating, but I know it's not going to be easy to accomplish the goals that I want.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.