Quotes About Achievement

2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.

I think, between me and Chris Brown, if you combined our games, you'd get, like, a real Division I basketball player.

Records come and go.

You can never have the comeback if you don't have the retirement.

An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job.

I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.

Comedy has been so good to me.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

I'm fighting because I want to be the best and I want to beat the best and I want to make a name for myself. I'm not fighting because I want to live comfortably for the rest of my life.

I'm loving life, making money doing what I love to do, making good money and living comfortably. I drive a corvette and live in L.A., baby!

When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years old, and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years earlier.

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

When people commend me on my success, I know I didn't just get it. I actually earned it.

For players to perform near their best every week is commendable.

The films that I have done are commendable.

Since I came on the tour so young and I won my first match, I've had a lot of comments like 'You'll be a top player one day.' I got to the point where, as nice as it was to hear that, I almost stopped listening to it. I was almost putting added pressure on myself.

After a few years, we realized that you did have to put some work into it. That's why the bimbo comments make me angry. After seven years, people have to realize we have a certain amount of talent.

After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of 'Oh, that was luck.' You think that doesn't get to you?

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

I've never consciously done 'safe' commercial projects; luckily, they have done well.

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.