Quotes About Achievement

I had not expected to ever be in a position to able to say, 'Hey, see the magazine with J. Lo on the cover? They reviewed my book inside.'

One day Dad was driving in to New York to appear on a telethon. I hid in the back seat until he had gone too far to turn back. I pleaded with him to let me appear on the telethon with him. He finally agreed. Richard Rodgers happened to be watching the telecast, and he called Dad afterwards with the offer of a job for me.

I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.

At the end of the day, of course I want to continue to be successful at Madrid; I want to be important here. I have never hidden from that.

One hidden talent is that I used to play badminton for India.

I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.

Once I started advancing in my career, I stopped wanting to hide from my reality.

There is no need to hide the fact that the Champions League is very important to us. We want the Scudetto, Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana, but the Champions League is very important.

I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

For me, people like Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn have set the fitness bar very, very high.

My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.

I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.

I think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.

I live for the high expectations.

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

I'm trying to do my job at a high level and that's it. Everything else can take care of itself.

I learned that I could definitely play at a really high level and I definitely belong at this level.

I'm lanky and I've always been lanky, but I was a really good athlete. Everything I've ever done in sports, I've done at a high level. I had a passion for what I was doing, and I had to be the best at everything.

People don't last long in this game. I feel blessed that I've been able to stick around and play at a high level for my entire career, which is another hard thing to do. That's the only way you stick around - if you're out there and you're able to produce and make plays.

I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.