Quotes About Achievement

I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

For us to be successful, we have to kick our competitors' butt.

You have to fight hard to get where you want to be. I never had any backing. I just had to kick the door down and barge through.

I am looking neither backward nor ahead. I am not thinking of what Salman has done earlier and what is the competition for my film. I am only focusing on getting it right in 'Kick.'

Even in school, I used to get kicked out in every class except music. I was always at the top of my class in music.

I've kicked a lot of balls over the years.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

Getting a chance to work with Vidya Balan as her daughter is quite cool. 'Shakuntala Devi' is a biopic and I'm quite kicked about it.

I've been kicking around in this business for 20-something years now, and there's actually few times where you can look at the piece of work that's put out there, and you can actually be proud of it.

Kicking's kicking. Pressure's pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.

Being old didn't seem like an accomplishment. Everyone I knew who was old was like sick or broke. It just didn't look appealing until I moved to L.A. and started interacting with people who were 50+ and still kicking it, having money, living large.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.

I've never told anyone, but my ambition is to become the leading all-time scorer of free kicks in Serie A.

Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.

I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

It was always a dream for me as a kid to become the No 1 DJ in the world.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I really feel like I have the potential - and I'm not even kidding about it - I have the potential to be the best player in the league.

I always try to show there's a way for the kids that feel like they're lowlives. In anything you want, you can be the greatest at it, even without school, if you want. Know your route.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

I really want to make a big mark in athletics, to be a legend and be a good example to kids.