Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
It's very difficult to have the same motivation in the season after you've won two trophies.
There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'
I want people to see that I'm not a one-hit wonder.
Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.
I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.
It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.
People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.
In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there.
It was nice to have success in the SheBelieves Cup, but that just brings more pressure.
I know many actresses who started big but were sent packing, as they couldn't sustain the momentum. I am in this for the long haul.
At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction, ... I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.
I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.
