Quotes About Achievement

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.

It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.

I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.

I was twice voted best left-back in the world.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to be voted into the Hall of Fame. But if I don't get in, that's not the end of the world. I am surrounded by my loved ones, and being with them, going through this journey with them, makes me extremely happy.

In fact, when I was voted for the sexiest woman for two years, it was a fabulous feeling.

I've had a great career; they've put me in the Hall of Fame, and the WBC voted me the best super-middleweight with Joe Calzaghe, yet all I wanted was Southern Area champion. Maybe a shot at the British title.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.

That's what I want. I want the big fights, not only to get the title shot but to secure my future and whatever I pursue after fighting.

You've only got your 20s and 30s to secure a job; you'd better be established by your 30s.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.

I just love achieving my goals. I'm a goal seeker.

The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.

When I go to sleep, I want to know that I have experimented as an actor, and I am constantly seeking to evolve.

I'm a guy who always seeks the goal.

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.