Quotes About Achievement

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.

When you win a championship, you can't always rely on that for the rest of your life. You want to try to go out there and win a better one.

We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.

If you start beating opponents in their backyard is when you give yourself a chance to remain No.1.

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

What remains of the kid at Sevilla is the same dream of always wanting to win. I still have that today.

'Bodies' remains the drama I'm most proud of.

Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.