Quotes About Achievement

My dad would talk to players like Claude Lemieux and Stephane Richer and tell them one day his son was going to play in the NHL. How many dads say the same thing? But, gee, he was right.

I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

I've crossed many cultural and gender barriers as a woman.

It's about hard work and not gender.

I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

Sure, it's nice to get appreciation from the outside. But generally, I don't think personal accolades are appropriate in football.

I want to be the first boxer to generate a billion dollars.

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.

We will write a new page of history, one that is positive for this country, so future generations can be proud.

I love the industry I'm in, and it's been really generous to me.

I love football. It's been very generous to me.

A lot of guys have made it from a lot of different places, and not necessarily because they had parents with great genes. They worked really hard, and they used the resources they had as well as they could.

I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.

I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet.

My dad is very down to earth, and I view him as a creative genius, and I am very proud of that.

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.