Aiming for Success Quotes

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

We see every game as a big game, and, as you know in tournament football, anything is possible. Each game, we want to keep raising the bar and lifting our standards and putting goals past teams.

Of course, when you start in pole, winning is the only target you have.

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

I don't understand people who just live to exist, live to be OK. Live to be regular, live to be average. It doesn't make any sense to me. I live to be the best. I don't live to be good. You only get one life, and I live to be great. I live to be special.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

I am never happy with where I'm at and I never like to feel like I'm comfortable. I like making everything a little bit harder so that when it comes to the game it can feel a little easier.

I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

I'm always trying to stay above the rest, and that's by doing the extra work.

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

I just want to play as hard as I can.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

I am the type where I don't worry about anything else but how to top what I did yesterday. My main goal is to top what I did before.

Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.

I always want to be the best and if I can't, I don't want to run.

Every day in normal training, I'm trying to score more. And after training, I stay to practise my shooting as well.

I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

Sometimes it's better to make a mark than to hit your mark, and I think I realized that early on.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.