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Quotes About Achievement

It's a great happiness and deep pride to equal Andre Guy's record for goals in a season.
~ Alexandre Lacazette
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
~ Brian May
'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.
~ Joshua Foer
I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.
~ John Mayer
When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.
~ Charles Kelley
I don't consider myself to be a great musician, but my first album was a record hit in Pakistan.
~ Atif Aslam
I was really proud of the Three Days Grace record 'One-X.'
~ Adam Gontier
Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'.
~ Anthony Anderson
When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
~ Ben E. King
A Khaled record is always the best.
~ DJ Khaled
My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.
~ Will Smith
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
~ Mac Davis
To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
~ Zac Brown
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
~ Roger Bannister
If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.
~ Abby Wambach
My next baby will be my new record.
~ Lady Gaga
It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.
~ Rihanna
My career record was 5-2 in penalty shootouts.
~ Edwin van der Sar
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
~ Robert Plant
In the beginning, somebody told me there was a record in the cruiserweight division where Evander Holyfield became the champion. I thought about that, and I told my team, 'Let's make our own history, our own record, to beat Holyfield's record.'
~ Oleksandr Usyk
In 1996 - when, for the fifth year in a row, we had the best record among major airlines for on-time performance and for baggage handling and the fewest complaints for the number of customers carried - we dedicated an airplane to all of our 25,000 people. We put all their names on the outside of the overhead bins.
~ Herb Kelleher
My favorite record was the one I produced with Clark Kent.
~ Damon Dash
The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.
~ Chris Rea