Michael N. Castle Quotes

I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.

A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

We won't let you down. We will work together and successfully complete this mission.

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

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.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

All great achievements require time.

All great careers are carved out by the sword.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was glad that I endured those three years - that I did not give up.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.