I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Accomplishments have no color.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.