Rising to the Top Quotes

Fred VanVleet's story - here's a kid who's not very fast, not very tall, undrafted, had every excuse to not make it big and here he is and he's gonna be one of the top free agents.

In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

It's a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything -- I had nothing to lose, basically I was starting from zero. And now I'm back in Top 5. And for me it's a different stage.

I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor.

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

I couldn't believe I was in the big leagues. I also knew that I have to work hard every single day to stay in the big leagues. One thing is getting to the big leagues; another thing is to stay.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

It is cliched, but you have to beat the best to be the best.

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

The pressure was always there, but I feel like it was almost invisible to me. I had too much going on once I got rolling with Evolution and won my first title. They say the cream rises to the top, and I felt like the cream. I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me.

How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.