Elana Meyers Quotes

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

My mom is very excited for the fact that I got signed and, of course, being a mom, she's going to be a little worried.

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.

All I want to do is make my mother incredibly proud. That's all I've ever wanted to do.

Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has the visibility.

The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.

Our daughters have always been a credit to us. And I am so proud of them.

My parents are avid supporters of me, and just hearing my name and the word 'Grammy' in the same sentence would be a dream come true. I mean, that's something you put on your tombstone.

I'm always proud of what I've done and what I continue to do.

Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.