Quotes About Achievement

You will never find success, unless you fail.

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

he insisted, since he'd earned something more useful than a GED—a GE, his "gutter education." He

I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

Since I was inexperienced in films, I thought it would be very intimidating to work with experienced people like Sanjay Suri and Samir Soni. But I must say they are very encouraging. They clapped when I gave a good shot.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.

You will rarely get introduced as the two-time Pocono champion. You will certainly be introduced as the two-time Daytona 500 champion.

I was introduced in 1987, but it was only by 1996 that I became a hit with the audiences.

It's good when as a young player you're introduced to a top team like Manchester City and you need to do well.

I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer's going to be introducing me... Derrick 'The Black Beast' Lewis... and I just always pictured him saying it.

2012, I feel like I was still grinding. It was a good year for me, but that was my year breaking down the barriers. It was like my introduction.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.

I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.