Quotes About Achievement

The Super Bowl wasn't that big. It was just a game.

People are forever knocking kicking, but it's not easy, believe me. Ask Scott Norwood when he missed the field goal in the Super Bowl.

You think if you make it to the NFL, it's a success. You make it there, but quickly you say, 'I want to be a starter,' and that becomes success. Then it's, 'I want to win a Super Bowl,' and that becomes a success.

It's such a great feeling, knowing you're going to the Super Bowl.

They can take a record from you, but no one can take a Super Bowl from you.

Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That's pretty darn great.

Going back to the first time, your first dreams of playing in the NFL, you don't just dream of playing in the NFL. You dream of playing in the Super Bowl.

The team did a superb pitstop. We had steadily improved.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

I respect Cristiano Ronaldo. He has had a superb career.

London 2012 was superb. It was the best triathlon experience in a million years.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

I always told my people that, at some point, I want to play a superhero in the MCU.

My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.

I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment.

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.

Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name…Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs drive the sap downward and up again: and almost without awakening it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement. Like the god stepping into the swan.

Continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world.

Basically, if it is good, one can't live to see it recognized: otherwise it's just half good and not reckless enough...

And the expenditure of energy only seems so great because you put too much importance on the victory. It is not victory that is the 'great thing' you think you have achieved, though the feeling itself is not in error. What is great is that there was already something there that you were able to set in place of that deception, something true and real.

But alas, with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good. For poems are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough—they are experiences.

She has something of her very own, something suffered, accomplished, perfected