It's 2015, and I'm the first female coach in any of the major sports. That's ridiculous!
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
I was the first black man on television.
I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and the Academy is so intractable to this day.
I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'
It's an amazing honor to be the fourth Black hockey player to go into the Hall of Fame. It's a huge thrill.
Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.
Sue Grafton's 'A Is for Alibi', the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn't seen as the pioneering achievement we now know it to be.
That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
