Quotes About Achievement

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.

I was an overnight sensation.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.

Marathons don't come to you overnight.

I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Being quickest in practice is nice. It builds a lot of confidence overnight.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

My success was pretty overnight.

Success has been a gradual thing; it hasn't been overnight. So I appreciate everything and never take it for granted.

Fame doesn't come overnight.

You want to raise good kids, but it doesn't happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time.

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don't do that and then become an average player overnight, so I know I can contribute to West Ham.

Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'

It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

It's definitely not an overnight success. There has been a lot of work, effort and concentration to get where I am now. I've gone through different experiences, good and tough, to mould me into the player I am now.