Quotes About Achievement

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

Someone accused me of having 'gone off the rails' but I've never been on them hence the success and happiness I enjoy on a daily basis.

I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

I can remember before 'Rain Man,' I just couldn't get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar - the next year, I co-starred in six movies.

If you pick up a copy of 'A Better World,' you'll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It'll be ten pounds.

We're all fighting for a reason. We're not fighting to just fight. There's got to be some type of reward at the end of the rainbow and that reward is a big, shiny, UFC gold belt. That changes every fighter's life dramatically for the better.

All the support and opportunity started and then Le Mans became the pipe dream, the thing to aim for, the end of the rainbow.

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

We want to become the best place on the Internet for self-expression and entertainment. If we have to raise money to achieve that goal and maybe move faster, we'll do it.

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.

I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

When I went to my first FA Cup final, we had to pack bags in Tesco to raise enough money for a bus to London. Now, I own a house.

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.

To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.