Quotes About Success

I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

I think I'ma make every hood proud. Everybody that ever seen me come up, know what I came from, know how I came up, know where I started. I feel like I'ma just make everybody proud.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

To look back where I started from, you can't help but be amazed.

It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.

We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

If I'm going to be a sixth man, I'm going to go for Sixth Man of the Year. If I'm a starter, I'm definitely trying to be a great player either way.

I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.

When my number is called, nobody cares if I am a starter or not. They just care if I make plays or if I'm productive.

Being able to put the film out there that I did and prove that I can be a starter in this league, it's put me in a good situation.

Guys get... benched, replaced. They get injured; another guy comes in and becomes the starter. That happens all the time.

If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.

It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and fans around the world are recognizing that.