Peggy Fleming famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Goal #Doing Your Best #Should
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Leadership #Sports #Love You
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Sports #Fitness #Running
I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Sports #Guy #Effortless
I think skating helped me find myself.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Thinking #Skating #Figure Skating
We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Mean #Achievement #Being A Woman
When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Fighting #Stay Positive #Down And
When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Flirting #Light #Ice
As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark
-- Peggy Fleming

#Children #Thinking #Violin
My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life
-- Peggy Fleming

#Sports #Taught #Talent
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event
-- Peggy Fleming

#Olympics #Events #Midst
Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for
-- Peggy Fleming

#Giving #Skating #Wanted
Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul
-- Peggy Fleming

#Heart #Soul #Skating
This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Strong #Real #Cancer
Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Sports #Love You #Hard Work
Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.
-- Peggy Fleming

#Sports #Impact #Feelings

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