Quotes About Achievement

Also, I've already won all the awards.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

A lot of people, when they see my career, they hear or remember, 'Sat on the bench four years in college, got cut by the Packers, worked in a grocery store, and then won the Super Bowl.' That's kind of the timeline the people see when they hear 'Kurt Warner.'

It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won a gold medal as well in Beijing. I have had a good run at the Olympics.

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

I'm the guy that once graduated Ranger School - a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months - and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.

What matters is the team winning. Even if I only managed to score once or twice all season, if the team won the league title, I'd still be happy.

I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.

It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.

I am happy. I have won many awards, but it is the national award that I was waiting for. This means everything to me.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

When I was a wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, I lost in Super Bowl XI. It was a crushing defeat. Now I don't even think about it. It doesn't even come to mind. Had we won, maybe it would've been in my head longer.

I can't believe that I just won a gold medal. I think it will take a bit to sink in.

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.

It's nice to win a trophy every season and say every year, 'OK, I won something.'

I've won everywhere that I've been. I've never had a losing season in sports from the moment I was five-years-old. I'm not a loser.

In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.