Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions - and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that. ”

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good... depending on how it's going that day. ”

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs. ”

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. ”

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. ”

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes. ”

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.' ”

They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game. ”

Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me. ”

I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with. ”