Quotes About Accomplishment

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I do have to pinch myself at times when I look back at some of the things I have achieved. I really do.

In my career, if you follow my career and watched everything that I've ever done from the time I was in high school to where I'm at now, I've always been able to reach the pinnacle. In football, I was able to win championships and go to bowl games in college, be an All-American linebacker, and there were a lot of things I was able to accomplish.

I want to have a diploma to hang on my wall. Even if I don't use it, I can say I graduated from UF.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'

J Cole went platinum with no features, and I wanna go platinum!

Who doesn't wanna be called champion and hang that belt on the wall, right?

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

The more games you win the warmer it gets in December.

Obama really is a warrior in chief. He's not afraid to get the job done.