Childhood Achievement Quotes

At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I swam for the county when I was 12. You wouldn't think it to look at me now, but I'm as graceful as a seal.

I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid! I did the Junior Olympics.

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

I won a competition in primary school for my painting of Nottingham's Goose Fair; it was a riot of colour with glitter and sequins.

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

When I was nine years old, I was on the cover of 'Sport Karate' magazine.

I made myself memorize how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in under 3 seconds when I was 6 years old because my sister told me it was the longest word she knew.

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

I first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade.

When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.