Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's someone, in terms of global popularity -- someone who has achieved so much, having gone through all of the adversity ... we're proud to be associated with him.

Hines Ward

He's touched every player in this locker room in some way, somehow. I just didn't want him to go out like that, one game short of the Super Bowl. It's not often you're playing with a Hall of Fame running back, and a Hall of Fame guy, period. I appreciate what he's done for my career, and having him come back and winning a Super Bowl where it all started, I'm glad to help him achieve that.

He's such a low-key, classy individual. And what he's been able to achieve hasn't been given just due. He's such an ambassador of the game. Football's been good to him, and I hope he reciprocates it by staying close to the game. I hope he doesn't completely walk away; I hope he doesn't fade away.

Edward Kennedy

Hopefully, we've seen what can be achieved and accomplished when we work together,

I'm five wins away from reaching 100 wins, and I want this team to take me there. This is a special team and I'm very confident that we can achieve our goals.

Venus Williams

I'm so proud to have followed her achievements and to have done it in her lifetime.

Nick Hanauer

If Jeff Bezos and I had started Amazon.com in a poverty-stricken corner of Africa, there would have been no job creation because there would be no people to buy the stuff from Amazon.com. The difference here is the American middle class, which is by every measure the most extraordinary economic achievement in the history of the world.

Andy Roddick

If I would have won a match when I was 17, that would have been a great achievement. Now if I don't win the tournament, you guys are going to be writing stuff,

Charles J. Shields

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

Steve Erickson

If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.

If money can be saved without impacting student achievement and while still maintaining services to our community then it bears looking into.

Troy Aikman

If I were to be selected for induction, it would be the most meaningful individual achievement of my athletic career. I came into the NFL wanting nothing more than to win a championship. My career unfolded in a way that exceeded all expectations and I am grateful to those who helped me along the way and shared in that success.

Jenson Button

I have no particular affinity with any number -- other than one of course, which I hope to race with enormous pride when I achieve my goal of winning the world championship,

I haven't achieved what I need to yet, I have still got unfinished business and I am just going to keep at it.

I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Zinedine Zidane

I have no doubt ? our players play for some of the best clubs in Europe. I am convinced that our players are only just a little short of what is needed to carry us a long way. We have to do everything we can to achieve that because it will be the last chance for players like me.

I have never understood the concept of over achievement

Joe Johnston

I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.

Dick Gephardt

I'm very proud of what we've achieved ... but there is, however, a large unfinished agenda.

In 1998, we again met our commitments, even though economic conditions in the markets we serve proved to be much worse than originally expected. In 1999, we again expect to deliver double-digit earnings per share growth and we are putting in place the actions necessary to achieve that goal.

Kenny Leon

I never think about putting my stamp on anything, ... If someone watches a play and they don't see the hand of the director in it, if it's seamless and seems effortless, then I will have achieved what I'm after. I want folks to sit and hear August's music.

I'm very proud of my accomplishment. This tournament is almost as tough as the PIAA Tournament.

Evgeni Plushenko

I'm very happy. I achieved a new personal best and I did it in the Olympic Games. This is very important to me. Everything was clean.

David Ferrer

I'm very happy, because it's something that I never expected to be in the Top 10 of the INDESIT ATP Rankings. In a year I've gone from being No.40 to Top 10 so I'm very proud of myself. I will keep on working and I'm just proud that I'll always be able to say I've been in the Top 10. It was always something that motivated me, but now that I've achieved it, it just gives me more desire to achieve greater things.

I'm very pleased that we achieved our third consecutive year of higher sales and also our third consecutive year of record earnings. Clearly we put in place a platform for solid sustainable growth in both sales and profits.

Andrew Forrest

Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us.

Individuals actually qualify independently to the NCAA championship. We have a number of individuals that I think have a great opportunity in their hands to try to achieve that, which is a huge accomplishment in swimming.

I need to see what justice feels like, what an attempt to achieve some type of justice or accountability or responsibility feels like.

I'm not sure whether you call it loyalty but I've got a lot of things I still want to achieve in Brisbane itself, with this club.

I'm happy to have reached the knockout stages, which is an achievement in itself.

Craig Washington

I'm hoping her death serves as a clarion call for people in this country to call for the rights of LGBTQ people and that it also serves as a call to LGBTQ people to realize that liberation is not fully achieved until we focus on matters affecting us all.