Quotes About Achievement

I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

Our main thing was playing basketball and just trying to win games. Doing that was a representation of who you are and people wanting to associate themselves with you.

I wanted to tour the United States because I feel I owe it to the community that I grew up in. When I was growing up, the only people I saw on TV were Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and Jet Li. Our representation as Asians wasn't big, but I wanted to be like Lucy Liu and then Maggie Q.

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I have always dreamt of winning the Africa Cup of Nations and the fact that I am representing my country and I am always proud to wear the green white green.

I didn't dream of joining Man City as a professional one day, or representing England, because I didn't know that was even possible.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

When I began my life journey, we'd survive on Rs 500 a month as a family. As time passed and I started playing for the country, this Rs 500 multiplied manifold, but it was not the money that mattered: it was the fact that I was fulfilling my ambition of playing cricket on the highest platform, representing my country.

Representing my country will always be one of my proudest achievements, and I feel honoured to have played for England.

I'm representing the LGBT community, and I want to do well for them.

Representing young black girls and giving them hope and the light and letting them know that they can do anything is important to me as a little black girl, too.

To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor.

I always knew that whenever you go out there, you're not just representing yourself. You're representing a heritage that's behind you, your culture, so you always have to do things, like, bigger, badder, better.

As a young boy I dreamed of playing in the national team and representing my country with pride. I'm proud to have achieved that aim and to don my nation's colours.

The initial feelings when you step into the Olympic arena representing your country, your community, representing yourself can be really overwhelming.

I grew up watching as much Olympics as I could, checking out all the sports. As a kid, you dream of playing your sport and representing your country and seeing the famous rings.

I think it's important at the end of the day you know obviously playing in the NBA is a great thing, but representing your country at the highest level is something totally different.

Representing my country is an honor that nobody can ever take away from me and something that I am so proud to have achieved.

Jackie Chan is so international. Everywhere you go, people know who he is. I hope I can be like that one day too - to be an actor that represents Asia to the world.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.