Quotes About Achievement

I was a shy kid so my parents sent me to Anna Scher's theatre school. That's how I got my first proper role aged ten in the BBC show 'The Glittering Prizes.'

It's an honor, really, to be a Pro Bowler.

I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

I knew I was going to play pro tennis when I was 12.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

Playing pro baseball has definitely been a goal of mine.

I want to make Pro Bowls, do all the great things.

The Olympics are the biggest thing in boxing and the more you do as an amateur, the better deal you get as a pro.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

Befriending Pro Bowlers and future Hall of Famers is pretty cool, but I'm just enjoying the ride, looking at every day in the NFL as a memorable moment.

It has always been my dream to make it as a pro.

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.

It is, to me, a goal of mine to come back to Hawaii and to play in the Pro Bowl.

I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you're top five in the country; you're young and everyone says you can be a pro. That's when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.

It means a lot to be Pro Bowl. There's a lot of people who vote and they watch football a lot.