Quotes About Achievement

I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

I'd love my degree from university, because I'm one subject away from having a Bachelor of Arts, which I know I can't use, but it annoys me.

I don't want to get into the U.S. Open through the back door. I want to earn it.

I want to go back to school, get my master's, and do the accountancy thing at last. You know, get back to the dream. The real dream, that is, not the football dream.

It's nice to see the results. You work so hard and you want to see results to back up the work that you've done.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I came up from a difficult background.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

Romesh Ranganathan and I come from similar backgrounds and we've both done well for ourselves.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

You have to go through bad days to get to the great days you have in your career.

You may have good days, there may be more bad days than good days, but on the good days you have to push yourself, get the most out of it as you can.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

Once you win, you get used to winning, and that's not a bad thing.

I don't want to be known for bad things in life, ever. I should be known for my work. People should love me for my work.

To me, you get into this business to make money and to make a name for yourself. And the fact that you're on the indies for 15 years is not a badge of honor.

In everything I did, I wanted to go out on my badge.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.