You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you read more

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you read more

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- read more

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon read more

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as read more

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our read more

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out