Quotes About Achievement

I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

The results I've seen with Bodyshred have been far superior to any program that I've ever created.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

When you come to the Bernabeu, you have to be very superior to Madrid in order to win.

I wasn't born this super, superior athlete.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

I'm not a superman with a cape, I'm only a basketball player for the Celtics. But if I can make one child smile, I've done my job.

Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.

I started when I was 13 years old by entering 'Elle Girl''s search for the next supermodel in the U.K. I got to the finals and was signed by Storm.

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

I don't think in terms of being a superstar.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

Suresh Krissna and Mani Ratnam are the ones who made me a superstar.

At the end of the day, I'm a SmackDown Superstar.