Quotes About Achievement

Let's be honest, I'm not a guy who is going to grind out $10 entry fantasy matches. If I'm going to compete, I want to play at the highest stakes.

Once I moved to Chelsea I certainly felt the stakes had been raised and the training went to another level with a higher quality of players.

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

We all dream about winning the Premier League. We all set our stall out to qualify and we worry about positions afterwards.

Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.

Well, head space, mental stamina, all that stuff, like it boils down to getting it done.

No doubt about it, in order to win the WSOP Main Event, plenty of stamina is required.

If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.

When you win a championship, you realize it takes a level of stamina that most people don't have.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'

Being asked by Oprah Winfrey to be on her show and do her eyebrows in 2006 - to me, that was like getting an Oscar. It was a stamp of approval from a woman that is incredible. It propelled my career to a different level.

I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.

For me to have my little stamp on the sport, of course it's special.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.

My dream was always to have a stamp. I feel like people who have a stamp really did something. They really did some acts of service.

The level of competition on 'Iron Chef' was very intense. In fact, I feel like the show provides chefs with a stamp of approval and in many ways lets them know that 'they've arrived.' It was a tough journey, to say the least, but in the end, it provided me with an example how hard work and persistence pays off.

Honestly, as a rapper, the Freshman list is definitely the biggest milestone. Culture-wise - anything-wise - that's the biggest stamp.

I've made my stamp on the earth. My name will go down in history, and if I never want to work again, I don't have to.

I just felt I had done enough in the sport to put my stamp on boxing.

Hopefully, when we're done with the 'Korra' saga we can put our stamp on a movie.

I feel like, 20 years from now, if I can look back at a 15-year NXT career, it just means more to me. It means a lot to me to have that be something that, yeah, that was my stamp.