Moment of Triumph Quotes

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

Breakaway goals are fun.

Your first hit in the majors - that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.

Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team.

I've always enjoyed the emotion of being out there in the last minute of a game or the last couple minutes down by a goal. I think a lot of guys tend to thrive in that situation and I prefer to be out there.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.

Every ball matters - if with the last ball the opposition need four to win, and you've gone for 96, can you get that out of your mind and bowl a dot ball and win the game?

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Moments can change games; moments can create a run.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

If I score a goal in training, it feels great. But in a stadium, especially Anfield, or even when you score away and the fans are silent, it's just amazing. You are just in the moment. There are times when I've scored, and I can't even remember what happened. It's so good.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.

Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!

I have good memories and bad memories of games against Chelsea. All the goals are good memories because all of them are special.

I made promises to myself and my family that I'd be in the UFC before my first daughter was born, that didn't happen. I was almost at breaking point a week before I got that contract, I was going to go back to concreting - that weekend I get my major sponsor, which was huge, and I end up getting my UFC contract the weekend after that.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

It's obviously a good feeling when you hit a good shot and the crowd likes it.

People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it.