My point here is that I am stupidly competitive, so three months ago, when I was running a workshop at a high school health fair in Staten Island, I couldn't bear to see a couple of high school cheerleaders jumping off of a springboard when I knew that I could maybe do that better, or maybe backwards.
"They'd talked a bit about trying to get their season back on track and using it as a bit of a springboard and I think we were very keen to not be that springboard.
In 1988, at the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, on my ninth dive in the men's 3-meter springboard preliminaries, I struck my head on the board.
When Amy Millman, President of Springboard, and I presented our first class of 26 entrepreneurs at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood City California, on January 27, 2000, I stood on stage to open the event and looked out over the sea of investors.
However, as much as I enjoy the problem-solving on the show and the use of the character as a springboard for learning, I get uncomfortable when my toddler can't take his eyes away from the screen.
— Damon Darlin Emperor's New Clothes by Springboard Kickstarter.com | Is this a sly joke on Kickstarter projects that are less than they seem?
I used the tennis tournaments as a springboard to explore: if I was going to Australia I would stop off in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok or wherever.
"I thought this would be a springboard for my career, but, instead, I got married when I was twenty-one and had my son before I was twenty-two".
That's what Rocky really is: a springboard for the way I see life or wish life was".
