Quotes About Progress

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

Life is one big transition.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.