Quotes About Achievement

The beauty of a game like softball is you're failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you're still failing seven out of 10 times. But you're still good.

When you think about success - whether it be in softball, getting into college or becoming an 'American Idol' singer - whatever your goals and aspirations are, you're going to have to stand out at some point if you want to succeed.

I had a great career selling software.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can. Red Bull is a platform to celebrate all that humans are capable of accomplishing. They built a lifestyle movement, a brand that sold this product.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

All In' is not my baby, it's my brother or my cousin. We sold out a 10,000 seat arena in less than 30 minutes, and that, to me, says a lot about the health of wrestling outside of the machine.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

I remember, after the Pamela Anderson roast, being told, 'You're sold out - you can add two more shows.'

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!

I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles and I've also sold over two and a half million albums. I shouldn't have to convince people that I'm credible, but I'm glad people are now taking me more seriously.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.