Quotes About Achievement

I started playing pro in Argentina. Then I went to second division in Italy. Then after a lot of work, I made it to first division. And at 25, I got here in the NBA.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

I wanted to end my career as a pro coach and if possible, in Florida.

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'

I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked hard for the last eight or nine years of my professional career.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.

Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it's more fascinating to see who's going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.

This is somewhere I want to be for now on, being in the Pro Bowl and being an All-Pro player.

Obviously, not many people get to be pro athletes and hopefully make it in their sport. So I'm just lucky enough to have the chance.

When I turned pro, it was one of my goals to get ranked in the top 50. I didn't really feel the pressure. I had some fear but at the same time I was happy to play tennis and playing stronger players.

I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

Luckily, I have been a part of New Japan Pro Wrestling for eight years and it's been a great run with a lot of cool things and amazing experiences.

You paid attention to every cornerback that was drafted before you. You always tried to outperform those guys. And for me, that's always been in the back of my mind - starting with not being invited to the combine, of wanting to make sure I had a good Pro Day and then getting drafted at the end of the sixth round.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

It's been a dream of mine to play in the States ever since college. Being able to play pro here is amazing.

I always told my mother when I was growing up that I was going to go pro in something, and it came true. All the hard work paid off for me.

I have led the pro league scoring for flve years and that's honor enough for anybody.

I turned pro at 18 and it took me 20 years to get to world No1.

I'm a Pro Bowl defensive end.

Frankly, I've had the opportunity to get certain accolades, make it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other stuff that doesn't matter. I'm looking only on championship probability. I just feel like I haven't accomplished much unless I can somehow get that done.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.