Quotes About Achievement

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

This is my sixth year now. I've never seen this many all-stars in the locker room at the same time.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

I've never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I'd be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

I want to play my best, day in and day out. It's a pride thing for me. I'm going to go out there and dominate the guy I'm playing against every time.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.