Quotes About Achievement

I do not want to be a player who is known for hitting those 20-odd runs.

I want to be known for my hitting at least a little bit.

You usually feel a little bit better when you are hitting a few more homers. That's just the way it goes.

I don't want to act like hitting homers isn't a great feeling, because it is.

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

I'm proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.

I was lucky enough to have a hockey career in the NHL.

I have met people who have called me the god of hockey, but in my head, I know who I am.

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.

I remember starting hockey at age 7 and going to my first tryout and dreaming about how great it would be, and it's been even better. These 20 years in the NHL, it's been better.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

I played hockey with the best of them.

I've always played hockey to win, not to get shutouts.

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.

I believe God gave me the ability to play hockey, and I was helped by dozens of individuals along the way, so it's not just up to me on when it's time to say goodbye.

I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player in the league.

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?

My team never let it go up in my head that I am a record holder.

If you make no excuses, there's nothing holding you back.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

Myself and every Knockout in the company at the beginning worked so hard to build up a credible women's division in TNA so finally holding the title meant so much to me.