Jack Canfield Quotes

I have always dreamt of going to an Olympics and watching these incredible athletes and being motivated and inspired to want to be successful in my own sport.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

I believe in goal-setting. I don't care what it is. If you want to drop 10 pounds, increase your bench press, jump higher, or win a Super Bowl, you have to set that goal for yourself before you go out and achieve it. I think you have to regulate it, and see how you're building toward it every single day. Am I getting closer to that ultimate goal? Am I doing everything I possibly can today to be successful? I'm always very cognitive of my goals.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.

For me, it is important to do well in what I'm doing, to achieve the goals I have for myself.

After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.

I want to go and get more goals, create my chances for the team, and do my best for Tottenham Hotspur.

The only thing that got me to believe in myself was scoring goals.

A goal kind of determines how happy I am with my performance and if I have helped the team, so, yes, scoring goals is what I aim to do every time I step on the pitch.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.

I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by. I was amazed when I started reaching these goals by the date I had listed on them. It was a daily visualization exercise, and it almost always works.

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.