Quotes About Achievement

You're still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

I still carry it with me that I'm a I-AA guy and I had to go down to the minor leagues in college football and prove who I was.

The Olympics is still my greatest achievement... I have many belts, but there is only one Olympic gold.

Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.

You've just got to win in China - that's it. Winning is like good deodorant. When you don't win, it's like you stink; you smell.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

I have to cause a stir in Liverpool and do my job really well. If I achieve that, then - and that's what I hope - I will one day get the call from Bundestrainer Joachim Low.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

I would like to run about 15 stock car races a year. That would be my goal.

Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.

Shakespeare was the main thing I did in my life from the age of 16 when I first played 'Hamlet' at school. I then did summer stock the next summer and then went to RADA and joined the RSC and ran my own company and then worked at the Globe. That was about 30 years of my life.

Everyone who has ever aspired to be a stock car driver wants to win the Daytona 500. If someone says that it's better to win somewhere else, then that tells me one thing for sure - they've never won at Daytona.

I wanted the world when I was 20, and when I took stock at 40 I realised I hadn't come anywhere close to getting it.

I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.

Without doubt, some of the happiest moments of my career have come in a Stoke shirt.

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.