Quotes About Achievement

You set standards so things can be measured and done at a championship level.

I think that, because I set such high standards for myself in my first season, it became an issue of me keeping up to those standards.

My parents set high standards. It wasn't okay if you got a B.

I'm not competitive at all, I just don't care. I have my own standards I want to meet, but it's a very, very low bar. Even then I struggle to meet those standards.

I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I'd like to achieve those and look back without regret.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

I could do a standing back flip at 13.

Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.

There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

I cannot take away the fact I am a small-town boy from India, from a lower-middle class family, and was actually standing in front of De Niro - not on an equal level, but as an actor, on the same pedestal.

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

Everything in life is about standing up and making the most of your opportunities.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.

I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.

From my standpoint, I feel like I'm at the start of my career, I'm only 23-years-old but I have been doing it for 10 years.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.