Quotes About Success

I really put the medical school thing on hold and really chased after my football dream. And I guess I'm still chasing. I'm eight years in the NFL, and I feel very fortunate to be where I am.

I don't have a number set that I'm chasing, but I do believe I'll be a champion at 140, and again at 147.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.

'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way.

I don't bowl to escape with cheap economy.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

If you have to cheat to win, it doesn't mean as much as if you did it on natural abilities and hard work.

I'll do something that brings me a check.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

When you have goals and dreams and things that you've been wanting your whole life, and then they actually start happening and you start checking things off your list, it's like, whaaat? Huhhh?

All I've got to do is win at the end of the day and the checks keep coming in.

After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles.

When I was going off to training and matches at Arsenal, my mum wouldn't be on the side cheering me on: she'd be working so I'd have football boots. I saw that you had to work hard if you wanted to do anything in life.

The fans are very, very important in the team's success. Instead of acting up, you're cheering for the team.

I feel very blessed to have such wonderful cheerleaders and champions of my work.

There's nothing better than being head cheerleader, let me tell you.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

Dreams really do come true, which sounds so cheesy but it's really true.

It's hard to stay at the top. There's a cheesy saying isn't there: it's easy to get to the top but once you're there it's harder to stay there, and I'm fully aware of that.

When I met Corky, he was a cook, a chef. He never started dancing seriously until he was 21, which shows you can make it from any age.

Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.

I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.