Quotes About Achievement

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

I do not chase after the records.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

I don't think about records.

I think it's the opportunity to continue breaking records, either set by other people or by myself. I think that's what pushes me to always make the most of myself and be very demanding on myself.

Records are always meant to be broken.

I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.

If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

Messi will continue to break records.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

Udaya Laxmi is not the only athlete who has been asked by the administrators to go after my records; they now want to take away the only record I hold, in the 400m hurdles that I set at the final of the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.

I've never chased records.

There are so many great records that when you grow older, you're like, 'Oh man, this is the best record ever made.' And you're like, 'Oh it didn't get nominated or win a Grammy.' It's countless, how many amazing, classic American records haven't been knighted or whatever.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

For sure I want to achieve records.

The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.