Quotes About Achievement

My mother had sent my picture for a TV contest seeking anchors, and I won.

The 2009 World Championship Duck Calling Contest, I won.

A large part of my career achievements are due to having the courage to ask for what I needed, whether in a professional or personal context.

For me, the main thing is that I continually improve my game and make sure I keep setting the bar high.

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.

As long as I'm taking care of my family and breaking records and continuing to excel and continuing to find new endorsements - everything's working.

I'm continuing to figure it out every single year: Life is a challenge, and the ones that succeed in life are the tough-minded ones that are not willing to accept failure.

I want to be the best, so whatever accolades come with that, I've just got to go out there and keep continuing to prove my play on the field.

I don't measure myself in my contract in terms of what I'm making.

You see a lot of times that when a player comes through to the first team and gets the big contract, they do not take the second step because they think they have made it. The truth is that this is when it really starts.

We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.

I always thought once you get your contract, I think that's when the accolades and all that stuff comes.

Everybody wants to get the MITB contract; that usually means at some point they will become champion. That's a big deal; that's what everybody strives for.

I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'

Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.

If I didn't play the way how I played, I wouldn't have gotten no max contract.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.

Any time you sign a contract it means that you had a good season last year and that you need to improve yourself this season.

I was just trying to make it to a second contract before guys. I was trying to outplay guys on the field and trying to last longer than them in the league. I think all of those things go through your head when you're a late-rounder, and you're always trying to prove people wrong.

When you get drafted and sign a large contract, people expect results right away.

You get a million-dollar contract, you can live off that the rest of your life.

Whether you want more money, whether you want more fame, whether you want more attention, whether you want a bigger house, whether you want a bigger contract, whatever it is you want, you have to win your next fight. That's it.