Cheryl Burke Quotes

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.

People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.

I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

People have said some really good things about my performance, and that's what I'm happy about, what I'm excited about. I was able to go out there, and like I said, I put my best foot forward.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'

What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

I'm proud of my work, and I try my best.

I am very happy for the kind of response I am getting for my work, but there was a lot of hard work that has gone into it.

I love the sport, I'm a fan of MMA, I've been a fan of MMA since before I started it, I was a fan of Eddie Alvarez before I started fighting, so just the culmination of events that have transpired in my life through hard work, through specifically hard work, it's just, I'm happy.

Football is one of the main things I can look back on with pride.

I'm proud of my career as a player.