No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Being champion is all well and good but you cant eat a crown.

No matter what accomplishments you achieve somebody helps you.

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Accomplishments have no color.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.