Quotes About Achievement

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

It really doesn't matter whether you get picked first, second or in the sixth or seventh round. It's an amazing opportunity to play at this level.

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.

I think I can be pretty special. I think I can impact a lot in the NBA, especially with my size and my shooting ability and athleticism and just being a humble person.

The Olympics are just different. I'm not sure why; the pipe's the same size, the board you're riding is the same, you're competing against pretty much the same people. But the Olympics is the Olympics, and I know it's a really big deal.

It used to get my back up because people would only say 'he does well for his size' and it's like, forget the size, I do well because I do well.

I can never celebrate a success in my career without it being picked apart because of my size or 'my health.'

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.

There's a lot of emotions that always come out after a skate of a lifetime. I always start crying because there is so much buildup to that competition.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

Even though skateboarding is considered a sport now and it is going to be in the Olympics for the first time, you always have to realize what got it there and what's going to always be important.

I dreamed of being a professional skater once. I wanted to be a Korean Olympic skater, but I wasn't good enough, so I quit.

There is always the next big thing, the next big skater.