Quotes About Achievement

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

I'm not thinking about records. Just winning the pennant would be exciting.

It's not about the pennies as such, but what I've been able to create for the family. I have done that better than I could have ever dreamed.

I'm a business guy from Pennsylvania who has done a lot for the state.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

If people say my numbers aren't enough for the Hall of Fame, I'm fine with that.

When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

Here in America, the big-brand collaborations kind of signify how far you've gotten. So in that sense, it's a giant kudos to us that we, within the first year, get to be the first ones to be the launchers of this Pepsi Sound Drop.

Playing at the highest level alongside your friends, scoring runs for your country are things that I look back and go, 'Ah, I miss that a little bit,' but there's a lot I don't miss. I don't miss 90 per cent of it.

I have done so many great things compared to many leaders. But I didn't do 1 per cent of what I am dreaming.

It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

I'm 100 per cent motivated. I haven't done enough yet in cycling to be satisfied.

My job is to give 100 per cent so that I can walk away completely satisfied with the race I put together irrespective of placings.

Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.