Quotes About Accomplishment

Progress along the way should count for something, but we discard it because goals are pass-fail, all-or-nothing, yes-or-no. There's no partial credit given.

To have six years of professional football under my belt already is really something.

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

No one can point fingers at my professionalism.

I see it like, I've been working really hard for a long time, and I've accomplished a lot of what I've wanted to professionally. I've been really blessed, and that's all I look at.

I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.

My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

Cassini was so profoundly, scientifically successful. It's amazing to me, even, what we were able to do right up until the end.

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.

Over all these years, I have never had a hit movie, never had a hit television programme and never had a hit record. To my way of thinking, that means success has not been achieved. I have made no mark of my own creation. This is something to be considered.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

My family, especially the ones that came to America, second generation, they're predominantly lawyers, doctors, accountants... they went to college basically, graduated, masters programs and PhD's... all of that good stuff.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

I graduated boot camp with meritorious promotion.

There was a lot of pride, being one of the elite fighters in the world, in the best promotion in the world. That's what I was proud of. To be called a UFC fighter, that was important.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

When I turned 30, six years ago, I decided to run the London Marathon and I did not even really train. I thought that it was not even that difficult. I completed it in 5hr 15min, I could have got closer to 4hr 30min if I had trained properly.

I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

I am very proud of rowing the Atlantic Ocean.