Quotes About Accomplishment

Win on your merit, not your skin color.

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

I got a small window of time to be an NFL quarterback. Some day when I'm done playing I can sit back and look at what we accomplished, or how does it feel, or what's it like.

On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something.

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

I am beyond blessed and humbled to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner.

My stats don't even need to be said, but I'll say them anyway. I'm a 14-time champion. I'm a two-time Slammy award winner. I've done movies. I host my own show. How much more do you want in an athlete, in a star, than The Miz?

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.

Now I can always be called 'Emmy winner Regina King.' I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they're announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

When you retire, people don't look at how good you became. They look at what you've won. We remember the winners.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

I've always been a big believer that winning a Super Bowl is an outstanding achievement, but that doesn't really reflect on what type of career that a person has had.

Winning tastes good.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

Anyone who is humble but still super accomplished, super recognized, renowned, has status, and has every reason to not have to be humble if they don't want to, but they still choose to be humble because they value that humanity is connected - that we're all on the same level as humans - that humility is what wins my heart.

I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.

I know I've accomplished a great deal for a man of my height. It's been a blessing, and I thank God for the talent. I've always given 110%.