“I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.”

“I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.”

“When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.”

“I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.”

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”

“If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.”

“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.”

“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”

“To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.”

“Success is dependent on effort.”

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

“To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.”

“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.”

“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.”

“You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.”

“Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”

“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.”

“It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.”

“Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.”

“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.”