Past Achievements Quotes

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

When I look back, I only do so to see what I've done in my past - my gold medals and the Championships that I've won. Really, I just look to the future and hopefully winning even more.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Three decades ago, in a top story of the century, Americans placed six flags on the Moon. Today we no longer try for new and bold space achievements; instead, we celebrate the anniversaries of the past.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

When somebody brings up a movie (of mine) that I haven't heard about in a long time, I feel like a 70-year-old pitcher at a bar somewhere, and somebody walks in and says, 'Oh, my God, I was in St. Louis and I saw you. You pitched a shutout.' It's real. I really did do that, because someone today remembers it.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

I don't like to look back. I love the next challenge and don't keep awards. There are a few that are really important, but my parents have most of them.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time

The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.

"Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.

You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

You can't sit back, rest on laurels and think about the past - what the journey has been.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.