Quotes About Gratitude

Yes, when the time comes for me to hang up my boots, I would love to stay and work with the City coaching staff. It would be great to give something back like that.

It's always nice to be getting personal recognition, but I wouldn't be getting it if it wasn't for the help of my team-mates and the backroom staff.

I appreciate who I work with, I appreciate the players and the staff.

I enjoyed every second at West Ham with the lads and the staff.

It's so great to fight in the UFC because the whole staff, they treat you so well. The people are happy to work there.

Many people worked hard in order to create 'Crash Landing on You.' I am grateful to the writer, the directors, and all the production staff.

I've really enjoyed my time with New York City and I'd like to thank Patrick Vieira and his coaching staff for helping me to develop as a player.

Now that I get a chance on the big stage, it's even more important to remember where I came from.

I put my head on my pillow now, knowing that in the later stages in my career, from 2010 on, I did everything I possibly could do to be as good as I could possibly be, I know it sounds really cheesy but it was actually true.

When you are in your initial stages of a career in films, filmmakers say, be happy that you got a chance to work here.

I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

We stand on the shoulders of giants - and that's something we can never forget.

I feel blessed to be able to do my stand up comedy all over the world, because some people never even leave New York.

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

People call us heroes, but we are nothing compared to our police force and fire fighters and everybody who protects us and makes sure our freedom is held to the highest standard.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.

Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.

Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here.

I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.