Quotes About Achievement

My boys' goals are to be in the NBA, regardless of what team.

The Olympic medal gave me a lot of confidence, and I went and won my first Super Series in Hong Kong. So in that regards, what Rio did was give me extra motivation and the confidence that now anything can happen.

I think if you want to go into politics, you have to take a very long-term view with regards to what you want to achieve. You can't make changes in just a short time.

With regards to the fame, I wanted it, I worked for it, and when you get it, it's something you want to turn on and off, but that's part of the game.

I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the chorus of our regional opera company.

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

I never regret what I do. I'm very proud of every work I have done.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.

My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.

I played at full-back for 10 years, I enjoyed it, and I had success there, so I can never regret being a defender.

My only regret is that I didn't play for Howard Wilkinson earlier. I would have achieved more and played even longer if I had.

I never regret any of the work I've done.

I don't want to regret anything in my career.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.

I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.

I very much regret that I haven't been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.