Quotes About Achievement

So in my sophomore year of high school, I ran in Barcelona for the World Junior Championships, and I set the national record for the girls' 1,500 meters in doing so.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

I've done a lot of ladder matches in my career and usually you come out a little more sore than you would in a regular match.

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree. I said, well, I'll get one.

I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

I'm sorry, but I am not interested in getting cheap popularity. I've earned my success through sincere hard work. And that's the only success I want.

I try to score in every game and I don't feel sorry for anybody: If we win and I score that's fine, nothing else matters.

I try to score in every game, and I don't feel sorry for anybody.

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

When you set goals and you reach those goals in mid-August and early September, there's nothing to look forward to. You sort of lose your drive.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'

Playing at the Opry, for me, it has such a history. It feels sort of like a coming-out party as a country artist. To know your heroes have played here is kind of crazy.

Not chasing success, I want to focus on my process. If I do that, eventually everything gets sorted out.

If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.