Henry Sy Quotes

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

I went to elementary school in Falls Church, Va.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

When I look at my own career, growing up, I was doing really well at age 11, but it was kind of isolating because back then, people weren't hanging out with me. My mom was always there. She had my back and was like, 'You keep focused. You gotta keep focused.' And I think those kinds of lessons were hard.

It's important for me to keep improving.

You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.

I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education.

Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

I've always had a plan. Even since, maybe, 12 years old. Really.