Quotes About Success

I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

As part of the England women's cricket team, we had our own rickety period at the end of 2005 through to the beginning of 2007. Learning from our mistakes, by 2009 we were the best team in the world.

Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.

We want Indian cricket to carry on.

When I first started playing cricket for England, there was hardly any coverage.

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

I cried all the way to the bank.

I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.

I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.

I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.

Only because you moved forwards, it doesn't mean you were effective. Sometimes it's the wrong criteria to be used.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer.

If I have to get a film by impressing someone, the audience can see everything. They will criticise me if I can't act, no matter how many films I get.

I've accepted loads of criticism and sacrificed so much money to do what I wanted to do - which, in a very small way, contributed to making things easy for my kind of actors.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

You will get criticism throughout your career. All the best players have had it at some stage, and they haven't let it ruin their careers. I won't, either.

It's very easy to criticize the CEO of the market leader.

It is not like I want all my films to run for more than 100 days. But I can't stand it when my movie is criticized.