Quotes About Achievement

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

John Kasich is the most popular elected official in Ohio because he got things done.

I feel blessed. All the great running backs that have come through Ohio State - Archie Griffin, Eddie George, Beanie Wells - I'm happy that I was able to carry on that lineage this season.

I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.

I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.

I am a girl from Cleveland, Ohio, that never thought she would be in Hollywood!

I want an Ohio State degree, and not all of their classes are online, so it might have to be after I retire.

I hope we win a lot of games, that's part of the job at Ohio State. But you want to have a bigger impact than that when you're done. You want to leave a legacy behind, you want to make change.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

It's never OK to lose a game.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

All my life, I've been winning, ok?

I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it.

It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.