Quotes About Achievement

Daniel Cormier is a different champion. He has achieved some amazing things in his career, and for me, it would be very nice to be facing him.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

'The X Factor' saved me.

There's a reason why you attach the luck factor to your hard work. You work hard in every film, but there's always that one film that comes at the right time and does the best for you.

I'm glad for my mom making me do 'The X Factor.'

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.

Some guys have one good year and fade away. I've worked too hard to get here and it's took me too long to just fade away.

I'd rather blow up than fizzle out. I don't want to fade away and go down the leagues.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

I never failed at anything in fiction.

If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I'm not astonished, then I've failed in the making of it.

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'