Quotes About Achievement

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

I really felt like we were gonna be The Rolling Stones of heavy metal, and we could have been.

On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting.

I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

I stood there amazed. I found it all hard to believe, that I, Des Nilsen, had actually done all that.

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

I've been so incredibly blessed. I've worked with some of the greatest professionals in town. I stood at the Golden Globes.

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

Team success stood, and stands, above everything for me.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

I effectively stood on the shoulders of a giant to make a little bit of noise myself. I'm a by-product of Muhammad Ali.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I feel I have played him well and honorably. I have nothing to prove anymore.'

I have to stop myself sometimes and look at where my life is and pat myself on the back because I'm beating the odds.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma. When I went to prison, it's mandatory to get your GED if you don't have a high school diploma.

I've practiced a lot of different sports. I stopped counting after 15.