Quotes About Achievement

I have dreams of working with some of the greatest to ever do it, including Sade, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Babyface, Smokey Robinson, and Timbaland.

We're different off the court and on the court, but when people say I'm the next Lauren Jackson I don't really mind because look what she's done.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

When I first came to Def Jam, in '06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary.

For a family to have five kids and to have emigrated from the West Indies, my father from Jamaica and my mother from Montserrat - it's not easy to provide for five kids let alone put three kids in AAA hockey, one being a goalie, and put two daughters through university.

I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.

There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.

As far as LeBron James, to me, he's on his way to carving out the very best career that's ever happened in the NBA.

I don't think it would be possible for me to respect people like Ridley Scott or James Cameron more than I already do. They're gods of filmmaking.

At the end of the day I did have LeBron James on my team.

I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.

I can be the best James Bond there is.

I'm not a Gary Neville or a Jamie Carragher, or somebody who doesn't need to do their apprenticeship in the media and can go straight into it because they've played for massive clubs. I've had to work at it but I believe I am better than them.

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

The buzz we had in 2000-01 was unique. We played 34 matches between January 1 and May 19, but lost only four.

I started training in January in 1993 and my first match was in April of that same year.

Just remember that when I went to New Japan, nobody knew who I was. And I've done okay.

When I think about it, if somebody was to pass Pete Rose's record just playing in Japan, that would be a bigger accomplishment because of the few games they play over there.

I think our choreography, which is easy to follow, played a huge role in achieving fame in Japan.