Quotes About Achievement

The four and a half years I had at Stoke is something I will always look back on with pride because it was a huge achievement. To be able to last in a high profile job as long as I did showed that, for the most part, I did a decent job there.

My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.

Coming to Stoke was a chance for me to develop and take my game to the next level.

Whichever way the result goes, my 1,000th game will be at Stoke and I had great times there.

Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I don't think I would have ever been successful.

I've got an awesome career happening, and I absolutely am so stoked with how it's all worked out.

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

You're always super stoked when you see that your song did go the distance and people are recognizing it.

At the start of the band's career, I had ideas for songs and thoughts I figured out, but at the time I wasn't sure how to write music or to finish a song. So for me to have finished a whole album on my own is a huge feat. That would be impressive to 15-year-old me. I think he'd be stoked.

Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

I was a lot smaller in high school, and guys were a lot bigger and faster than me. I stole some bases in high school, but it wasn't until my senior year that I started getting faster.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

When I got to MSG, I had to look around and just take it in. I looked at the crowd and couldn't believe it. Instead of butterflies in my stomach, I had hawks!

I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

How many people in the women's division can say they wrestled Robert Stone? Just me. To me that's cool. It doesn't always matter if you're in the title picture, you just gotta make the best of what you're given and it was fun for me.

Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.