Quotes About Achievement

You can not be in top five in Olympic after just one year's preparation.

My preparation and my routine are the foundations to my success.

I'm somebody that sets goals, enjoys the preparation and the planning to achieve those goals, and then really enjoys going through that plan really disciplined and achieving those goals... I enjoy the whole process. If you fail, you can backtrack and see, 'OK, that didn't go well, let's try something else and let's go that other route.'

I want to be great at what I do. I take a lot of pride in it. And I try not to sell myself short in my work and preparation.

Life prepares you so that you are able to create your own happy ending.

You have to prepare yourself mentally and physically by training and knowing how to take care of yourself the best you can so that you're able to fight and get to where you want to be.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

If I couldn't compete, I wouldn't ride. I don't ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.

I just prepare and train to be able to stay on top as long as I can and retire on top.

Free educational materials will, at minimum, prepare more people for college and allow them to be more successful once they get there. Most students want credentials that employers respect, and free educational materials alone will not do this.

It is a lot of pressure to prepare for the Mr. Olympia.

You can only get better if you're prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That's very important for success.

There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

The 2012 Olympics was such a high, but once it was over, I felt really down in the dumps. You don't really look beyond the event which you've spent four years preparing for, and so there's a bit of a comedown.

I was preparing to get into one of the IITs when I was in school. I was a good student.

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

You take the experience, and now it's a matter of preparing yourself mentally and physically so that in the future if you find yourself in situations like that, you're able to succeed.