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Quotes About Achievement

I actually won the Copper Gloves in Arizona.
~ Henry Cejudo
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.
~ Seth Rogen
The best match I ever played in was the U.K. championship final against John Parrot in 1992. I won 16-14 and I felt like I could pot anything from anywhere.
~ Jimmy White
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
~ Esther Williams
I won my first Champions League in 1989, and I won my last one 18 years later.
~ Paolo Maldini
The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old.
~ Adam Cole
I have been able to fulfil nearly all my ambitions at Chelsea. I have won the Champions League, the League, I have won FA Cups here, but you don't want to stop winning trophies, and being at a big club, you are always fighting to win a trophy.
~ Ashley Cole
My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.
~ Betty Cuthbert
If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
~ Barry Mann
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
~ Allan Sloan
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
~ Owen Hart
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
~ Bob Cousy
I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
~ Arthur Godfrey
I don't care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn't about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.
~ Ryan Garcia
I was a strength coach for over a year where our teams used CrossFit, and our football team won their first conference championship in 36 years!
~ Rich Froning Jr.
I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.
~ Ron Atkinson
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
~ Bob Richards
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.
~ Sarah Hughes
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
~ Graham Nelson
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
~ Mickey Rourke
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
~ Brenda Blethyn
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
~ Marcel Carne
Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.
~ Norman Jewison
To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.
~ Patti LuPone