Quotes About Achievement

To be looked up to as one of the Americans that's supposed to carry the torch, go to the major championships and get medals, that's a huge honour.

I've actually carried the Olympic torch through Stoke-on-Trent.

I really do like seeing Bobby Lashley get the torch and exactly seeing what he can do with it.

Some of the Tories say, 'She left school at 16, she doesn't have a university degree, what does she know about education?' I say, I may not have a degree - but I have a Masters in real life.

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

Shooting the 'Torn' music video was a dream come true.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' would be premiering in Toronto.

The thing that has led me to the place that I am is that every moment in my life, I've been following my dream: following my dream to go to the University of Toronto, following my dream to get my Ph.D., following my dream to work in Hollywood.

Bringing a championship to the city of Toronto and the country of Canada has been one the best things I've done so far in my career, and I'll push for that goal every single year I play this game.

I'm proud of Toronto. I'm proud of Canada. I'm proud of the NBA. I'm very proud of it.

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

I can hold my head high for what we built in Toronto.

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

In the alternate reality where I wasn't involved at all, and I'd been like, just, sweating my way through, trying to have a music career for years? And then my sibling had one and I wasn't involved at all? I think I'd be very tortured by it. But the fact that we've had one in tandem makes a lot of sense.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

I can't tell you how proud I am of all the Total Divas and just how excited I am about how well the show is doing.

By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines, with a total portfolio of around 12,000 hotel rooms.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'