Quotes About Achievement

Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.