Quotes About Success

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

You get what you're good enough to take.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I never made a good movie.

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.