Top 18 Springboard Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Springboard Quotes from famous people such as Jessica Fox, Philip Roth, Lorne Greene, Laura Osnes, Dorothy Hamill, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There is such a rich sporting culture in Western Sydney

There is such a rich sporting culture in Western Sydney, one that nurtured my sporting aspirations. Having Penrith Whitewater Stadium right at my doorstep was such an amazing advantage. It was a springboard to my success as an athlete, and I feel really fortunate to have grown up in this part of the world.
Jessica Fox
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I’m not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I’ve got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
Philip Roth
Bonanza’ has given me the springboard to dive in so many other things. You’ll hear no complaints from me. Certainly, there are times when I would like to have one spoonful of clam chowder before being asked to sign autographs, but that’s part of the price.
Lorne Greene
I let the whole ‘Grease’ experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It’s taken a lot of work and perseverance.
Laura Osnes
My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.
Dorothy Hamill
The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation – coal, oil, and natural gas – I’m hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.
Lisa Murkowski
Diving is cool to watch. Springboard or platform – it doesn’t matter.
Kyle Korver
I love radio and have done a little bit for years – since ‘Workers’ Playtime’ in the 1950s. It’s also a good springboard for comedians.
Ronnie Corbett
Living in New Zealand, that’s something that you’d like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as ‘The Hobbit’ to help you get international work.
Dean O’Gorman
Loki in ‘Thor’ is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I’d built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.
Tom Hiddleston
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., used the Kavanaugh nomination in 2018 as a springboard for her failed presidential campaign.
Mollie Hemingway
An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.
Gore Vidal
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens – I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature – using books themselves as a starting point.
Malorie Blackman
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
Charles Edison
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I’ve been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
Robert Plant
Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don’t feel the least bit constrained by it.
Mark Waid
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
Michelle Ryan
There was a time during ‘Gone Girl’ that I’d come home, and I’d say, ‘I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.’ For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I’m going to take on thereafter.
Rosamund Pike