Quotes About Achievement

It's an honor to be brought into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and I'm going to show up if I'm invited, you know?!

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?

The first time I worked with Usher, I learned that I belonged in the room. You know the first time you get invited into a room you have never been in and you almost feel like you lied your way in? The second time, you don't feel like you lied your way in.

Full circle: 2014 I go from playing on the street to getting invited to play on stage, now 2016 I'm headlining.

Once I got invited to the Green Room, that's when I was like, okay, I'm first, I'm getting drafted in the first round. Because they try their best not to let guys sit in there forever.

Look at it like this: I won the Skills Challenge and didn't get invited back.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

Numbers have always been massive to me. I was told at an early age that if you affect the game, and if your numbers are good in terms of goals, assists, chances created, the manager finds it hard to bring you off or to not involve you.

I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here. First in our family to go to college, that whole thing.

Everything that I have is because I live in America. If I was in Iran, I wouldn't be in the UFC... But, I came here, and I got to do something amazing. And that's because of America.

By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011.

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.

Growing up I was a competitive Irish step dancer.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.

You are in school, and you hear about 'Iron Chef' and think, 'One day, I have to be on 'Iron Chef.'