Quotes About Achievement

It's taken me a long time to learn how to not try to win. I've been trying to win too badly. I feel like I've underachieved.

I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.

I wanted to do this so badly, to be a successful musician.

I don't like doing things badly, that just feels like a waste of a day.

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

To be classed as Britain's best amateur baker was something I never envisaged; but to be able to have such an accolade in my one true passion is absolutely incredible.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

At Sunderland I balanced the books and managed them to this position of 10th and 13th. My record stacks up.

I bordered on great in dodge ball.

You have to win on the ball.

The first and last song I ever wrote was a ballad I was quite proud of, and one I would play for anyone, anywhere.

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

Manon' still feels like it didn't really happen, because it is such a mammoth ballet and I can't believe I did that.

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

I've always just done ballet, and I feel like I'm sort of living the dream.

The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn't feel I was part of it in a way. I moved up quite quickly so I didn't make many friends. You are on your own in that sort of place.

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

It's fun coming to the ballpark when you're winning.

I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.

My boys are Balls - they expect to win.

My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.

It was always a goal of mine to bring a world title fight back to my city of Baltimore.

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.