It took me 17 years to become a U.S. citizen.

It took me 17 years to get threethousand hits in baseball.It took me one afternoon on a golf course

— Hank Aaron

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

— Lionel Messi

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel…

— Scott Stapp

I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in…

— Billy Porter

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age…

— Arnon Goldfinger

It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.

— Liu Xiaobo

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the…

— Edward Burns

Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure…

— Francisco Costa

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

— Pramila Jayapal

I never really looked at Formula One like that was the long-term goal. I obviously dreamed, and my aspirations were to get to Formula…

— Lance Stroll

I've been in the industry for 17 years. I am over that phase of wanting my first watch, car etc.

— Sudha Kongara

I spent 17 years at Real Madrid and nobody can doubt that I'm a 'madridista.'

— Raul

I will have some time off, do some media works, and I think, for 17 years, I have given everything I could.

— Karen Carney

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

— Jeremy Rifkin

During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though…

— Wendell Berry