Quotes About Achievement

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.

Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

Decide what you want to be.... Pay the Price ... And be what you want to be.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

I don't think I've arrived. I think I'm continuing to get there, getting closer and closer to where I want to go. But I'm not there yet.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.

If you want something you have to will it into experience

Know what you want - and get it

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.