When you reach your peak it's time to die.
You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.
My goal is to be the best. That's my thing I want to achieve - the best that I can be - and hopefully, that's the best player in the NBA.
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.
I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.
I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.'
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
It's always difficult to say if anyone is in the best form of their career.
There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because there is nothing bigger and better. I have done the best I can do, and been in the best I could be in on television - with the best people.
My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Playing at the highest level really is something special for me.
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Getting into the Hall is such an honor. It's like the dessert of your career. The Hall is the top of the mountain.
