Unparalleled Achievement Quotes

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.

My fears are never about failure - it's about extreme success.

When I start winning big tournaments I don't think I'll just win tournaments, I think I'll blow them away.

How many fighters are going to be able to leave the legacy that I did? Nineteen years old, I came and I conquered.

What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.

My relationship with Shinsuke - I mean, he's a tremendous guy, we've maintained our friendship for well over a decade, and he's one of those incredible, rare, once-in-a-lifetime athletes whose ability transcends international border, which is something that's not often able to be done.

God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.

The buzz we had in 2000-01 was unique. We played 34 matches between January 1 and May 19, but lost only four.

The blessing of having your first project be something as fantastic as 'Girls' is that it gave me room to be selective because I didn't feel pressure to do other things. The curse is that my standards were really high.

None but himself can be his parallel.

To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

Tendulkar has had the greatest cricket career of anyone who has ever played the game.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

I'm not here to be mediocre.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.

Great things happen only once.

That feeling of being the NBA Champion is really unparalleled, because you're the best in the world. Without question. How many people can say that in any profession?

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

I'm a four-time world champion, so I don't want to hear anything about my losses.

I just want to be treated like an ordinary legend.