Quotes About Achievement

The first record we made, we recorded and mixed in a day. The second record was recorded and mixed in a week. The third was recorded and mixed in a month, and 'New Wave' was mixed and recorded in six months. It was an epic project.

People think you can wave a magic wand and create a star, that couldn't be further from the truth. People think that a promoter has all the cards and the talents are merely pawns and they have very little do with the bigger success, when they have most of their success because of what they do.

It takes a lot of hard work to feel you can walk out onto a ground in an international game and have success and once you get it you want it to stay forever. So you've got to ride that wave for as long as you can.

The pursuit has just been to find the 100-foot wave.

I'd always surfed with my ego - I had to get the biggest, best wave - and a lot of it was for survival.

I never know what the future holds, so I'm just going to make all the power moves I can, ride that wave of success and accomplish everything I'm supposed to accomplish. I never set no limits for myself.

Success comes in waves.

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

I loved the fact that Mitch Coleborn wasn't on my radar for 'Stranger than Fiction' until he sent 10 waves of himself to us. Then he went from unknown to having a great section in the movie.

When I win, I send shock waves through the boxing world.

I caught every wave I wanted and I fell in love with big waves at 16 years old. Then it just was bigger and bigger from there.

Well, it was - big wave surfing was my job. And I had to accomplish some great feat every year. And we kept finding bigger and bigger waves until there was no wave too big.

I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.'

I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.

Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way.

It's been a long way, but we're here.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.