Quotes About Achievement

My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.

You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

I've always watched the Hall of Fame speeches. Thought about what I would talk about if I ever was up there. But I don't wake up in the morning thinking about wanting to be in the Hall of Fame. I really don't.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

I'm speechless! I am so happy to have won MTV Brand New!

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.

As a player you get to meet Hall of Fame members and now to have my name in the same sentence makes me speechless.

At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.

I am up to the speed of the Premier League, and that was what I was looking for.

When you're in a sport like speed skating where the clock gives you the results, there is always a faster goal or a personal best to beat.

You never know if there is anyone faster than me, but I know my speed and most of the time I use it for good, but I don't know if there is anyone faster.

For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

With my speed and my hard-hit-ball percentage, there's no reason I shouldn't hit .300.

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

The idea for the 'Speed' series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it's all beginning to go to speed.

I had debilitating back pain. Three years later, I'm 40 pounds heavier and generating 20 or 25 miles an hour more ball speed.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.