Mike Wallace Quotes

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

I was very determined. The straight-A girl. I wanted to succeed. Driven. Let's face it: very driven.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

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.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

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.

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.

I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.