Maintaining Success Quotes

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

When you're hot, you try to ride it as long as you can.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Michael Jordan told me the way he kept the crown was by always outworking everyone else because he knew everyone was always coming after him. You can sneak up on people when you are 18, 19, 20. It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

We got to keep on being a success.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

It's nice to be at the top, but the most difficult thing is to stay at the top.

There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

I couldn't believe I was in the big leagues. I also knew that I have to work hard every single day to stay in the big leagues. One thing is getting to the big leagues; another thing is to stay.

A lot of people, once they become champion, they relax, kind of sit in the position and try to enjoy it. But I feel like everything I've ever worked for could be lost at any moment. I work harder and harder and harder, because I want to be farther ahead with every fight, and not worrying about these girls catching up to me.

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

I don't want to lose what I've won.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.