Quotes About Achievement

The good thing about having a hit record is you don't need too many people. Because now your record is on fire, and I already have a great team around me, so why run to the labels?

I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

I feel like being a 2019 XXL Freshman is just, it's important for me because not too many women can say they've... gotten anything like this, not too many people from where I come from can say that they've gotten anything like this.

No, it's not easy as it seems sometimes, but hitting year 10 is definitely special because it's not too many people that can do it, let alone do it at a high level.

I think that the consistency on being great and a top player, you know, it's always been the goal because it's not too many people that can sustain greatness for a long time.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

I did learn eventually - perhaps far too late - to respect the talent I have. For a lot of years out there, I was just bashing on to the next thing and not really thinking about it too much. That's what we do. But I'm learning to appreciate the moment.

My whole career has been a landmark. So I don't think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.

A lot of people talk about records, but you can get lost as a player if you think too much about them.

I used to get hollered at for benching too much.

I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody saw or even spoke about it. That would be just about the perfect world for me.

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

Having a house with seven-and-a-half acres of land and a swimming pool wasn't really on my agenda when in my old job and while I haven't spent too much money on cars or any other expensive gadgets, I did treat myself to a JCB digger.

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.

People have seen me at my best, but I don't think most of them know everything that it took to get me to where I am today.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.