Reaching the Top Quotes

You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.

I'd like to start a tradition of getting No. 1s - how 'bout that?

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I'm in the major league now.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world.

I've never been satisfied winning one world title.

I know everybody wants to make it to the NFL, but it doesn't happen like that.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.

I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.

YG and I told each other when we was coming up that if we didn't feel like we was close to making it by 25, we was going to stop.

I was 29 when we sort of broke through with Ghost.

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.

Shaking the commissioner's hand has always been a big thing for me. When you're young and you watch the draft every year, you're like, 'That's going to be me one day.'

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.'

I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

Everyone was telling me you have this great potential and you can be on top. I didn't believe that, but everyone was just telling me to believe in myself. I did and I'm kind of up on top and it's amazing.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce