Quotes About Achievement

Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.

It is kind of nice for when people appreciate what you have done, but I would not base my career on awards because they are mostly popular awards and not talent-oriented awards.

I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll and popular music.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

Fact is, I won popularity with my first film itself. Since I got acclaim very early in my career, people weren't that critical of me.

It is very important I live up to my own expectations as far as popularity and knowing that I left my mark on the sport.

I'm not out there to win a popularity contest. I'm out there to win basketball games.

China, if they decide to do something, they do it. Not only in football but whatever it is. If you think about the billion population, there must be Messis or Ronaldos out there. There must be many talented football players out there.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

I really want to drive a Porsche GT1 car - also a McLaren, if I could fit. I want to do LeMans badly. I want to do Spa, a European series with World SportsCars.

I've got a nice, big house. I've got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I'm test-driving a Porsche.

None who has passed through the portals of UAA has been a failure. From the former Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, to Lakshmi, Cho, Nagesh, Moulee, Srikanth, ARS and I, all have been a part of UAA.

If 'Satyagrah' was supposed to be my last film I would look back and say it was a happy portfolio. But there is a feeling that I wish I could have done something better.

The guys I dreamt of being like Phil Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, those are the guys I was aiming to become, and I think they do have a diversified portfolio with what they do.

When I think back on the work that I've been able to do and the work in my career of the highest quality, a huge portion of that has been on HBO. That didn't happen by accident.