Alan Goldberg Quotes (8 Quotes)

People are achieving at such high levels in sports that we're consistently seeing the impossible, whether it's overcoming an age barrier or a handicap.

The fact is parents spend time and money because that's their job. They are loving parents.

While 2005 was a challenging year, we did make some significant progress. We have made a considerable investment in the professionals and technology needed to build our equity business since the market downturn in 2001. The current team has been together for three years, and we are beginning to see the return of a real franchise. Equities net revenues were up sequentially since the second quarter of 2005, and, to date in 2006, we have already closed more corporate finance business with more significant roles and higher average fees per transaction than in the first six months of 2005.

A changing environment and continued declines in (corporate bond) revenue have led us to make the difficult decision to close that department.

The way to do it right is to take every kid aside one by one and tell them privately what they did well and didn't do well, ... You want to let kids understand that failure is a part of getting better. The big problem is when failure is just presented as failure. That's traumatizing.

The main effect is it kills the fun for the athlete. If you're not having fun and you're being pressured, you are going to be tight. You can't perform at any level if you are physically tight.

The scientific community would like to go to in vitro approaches. They're quicker, offer better information, and are more humane.

They need to learn to keep the focus on the now.