Quotes About Achievement

The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.

There's a sense most notably with my movies that for people to turn up, and make them big, you have to have a celebrity status. But it's not a choice I've made. It comes to you.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

I think the people who end up being extraordinarily successful - it's been my observation - tend to care enormously about status, particularly business people, right? Because the only point of money, you know, the only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pretty nice crib.

As a young player, achieving All-Star status isn't as easy as you might think.

During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best photographers and designers in the world. I had grown used to hearing that I was exotic and high-fashion.

When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are.

If there's a kid who's out there in the world watching wrestling, and they see me, and they know I have my Ph.D. while I was wrestling, that could possibly inspire them to not drop out of school, to not drop out of college, to go and obtain that type of educational status, and that, to me, means a lot more.

Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court.

A lot of people want to collaborate with people because of their level and status, but really I want to create with Beyonce just because of her skill and because of the history we have together.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status, simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue put in one's mouth by others.

My 30s were obviously amazing, having kids and building the bulk of my career, but although outsiders might think, 'well, he got's a great life, the major, the gold medal, the Ryder Cup status, all those other garlands, what's left?' it's nothing like that. I'm actually still very, very hungry.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1.