J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Talk: The Long Road to the TeV Scale -- A Personal Reflection

I recount, in a personal way, the steps along the road that have led to the threshold of uncovering the dynamics of electroweak symmetry breaking. They began with a few theorists' profound dissatisfaction with the ``standard'' Higgs-boson description of this physics and have taken us to the enterprise of thousands -- accelerator physicists, engineers, experimentalists and theorists -- who designed, built and will now exploit the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.