Quotes About Achievement

Seeing guys like Canelo helps me get better because they are already champions and I want to become champion. Having role models like that helps me a lot.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.

I am rather proud of my modest contribution to bringing democracy home.

What I value is that I have been able to do some modest work to help women rise to the level of their potential.

I find that the more you achieve, the more modest you become.

Both my husband and I come from very modest backgrounds. He's obviously done very well, and I've worked hard all my life and done well, too.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

I'm going for the big moments - I want the big moments. I just tell myself, 'Remember the work you did, the things you went through. And keep going.'

You sacrifice so much to get to the NFL. You miss recitals and graduations. Moments that you can't have because you're focused on being the best.

The championship moments are always the best and the ones you remember.

There's been moments where I've felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there's been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous... I've had that experience of someone saying, 'I don't know if she's going to go that far.'

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

I've had a couple of pinch-me moments.

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

I do feel my work has momentum.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.