Quotes About Achievement

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

Everybody wants to come out and win the gold, and sometimes it takes a personal best, sometimes it doesn't. But to be able to have all those pieces come together, it's a great feeling.

I want to be the next Paul Pierce.

Here I am, playing with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Kidd is my coach, I'm in Brooklyn, New York, they lobbied for me to be here... Regardless of my circumstances, I'm here.

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

Possibly one of the most exciting aspects of Pilates is that anyone can do it, and everyone can achieve amazing results.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

One of my best friends was the first U.K. female fighter pilot.

I hustled my way through college playing pinball.

Even though I'm in the changing room and I know I am, you still have to pinch yourself every night that you can say you're a Manchester United player.

Sometimes, I pinch myself. Through everything, its about hard work... believing in yourself and in the American dream. Believe that you can make something out of yourself.

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.

People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.