More On Success

Here are some more thoughts about success, taken from the book "How to Succeed in the Game of Life" by Christian Klemash:
Brian Billick - "First of all, you have to define your definition of success.  Because there's always going to be somebody who thinks tha you could do it better or differently....But for me it clearly is maximizing the talent that you have."

Nick Bollettieri - "Success is beating the success you've had and really putting yourself out on a limb where only a few people would ever take that chance.  Success is continued success, meaning along the way you're going to have ups and downs, but over time, the pendulum keeps going up and up and up.  That's why only a few people make the big time and climb the highest of mountains.  That, to me, is success."

Angelo Dundee - "This is the key to success: You gotta have fun.  If you don't have fun at it, you should get out of it."

Tony Dungy - "I would define success as doing the absolute best that you are capable of doing.  That's not the same as winning every game - it's being as good as you could possibly be.  And if you do that, I think you're successful."

Herman Edwards - "I think for me, success in life has nothing to do with what you gain and accomplish for yourself, it's really what you do for others that matters."

Bill Parcells - "I would say that success is never final, but failure can be.  In my business,
success in never going to satisfy anybody.  It's only a temporary gratification.  They're gonna want more.  So I've learned to deal with that.  You have to go forward.
     "No matter what you achieve, you've gotta move forward.  It's gotta be onward and upward because it's not final.  You can go from being pretty successful to pretty downtrodden and you can do it very quickly, particulary in this business."

Bill Walsh - "Success is progress.  It's becoming better at what you do.  That's what I always emphasize with the players, that if you can improve your skills and take advantage of it, that's success.  I don't necessarily measure it in winning and losing, although that's always a factor.  But if you've improved, that's success."