Quotes About Achievement

The thing I'm most proud of is that I've raised a lot of money for certain charities - breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing 'The Graduate' for 11 months was fantastic.

My bar has been raised so high that it has to be something really big to get me riled up and bring out the absolute best in me.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

I am the kind of person who likes taking one step at a time and raising the bar with each film.

My favorite part of the Olympics was the flag raising and seeing my family there.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

When you're raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

We never knew we'd have kids playing pro football or going to Super Bowls. That wasn't ever a part of our plan in raising kids, so we really feel blessed.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

You don't set out making a film that will rake in 100 crores; you just want to make a good film.

My personal career highlights would be getting my first No. 1 record, 'Down in the DM' and getting the second one now with 'Rake It Up.'

To compete in the Dakar Rally is a lifetime ambition for me and is something I know I have to do.

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.

I demonstrated through my work that I can rally other people to support legislation and get it passed.

After all those years in the business, I asked myself, 'Am I really any good? Or am I only good because I'm with good people - a Murray Pearlstein, a Ralph Lauren?

Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it's amazing.

I still can't believe I acted in Ram Gopal Varma's direction.