Katie Ledecky famous quotes

I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else's goals for me are or their expectations. I just know that my family will always be supporting me and my friends and my coaches. And as long as I put in the hard work and know that I'm giving it my best effort, I will always be happy.
-- Katie Ledecky

#Hard Work #Long #Giving

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.
-- Katie Ledecky

#Important

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.
-- Katie Ledecky

#Good Day #Feel Good #Feelings

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.
-- Katie Ledecky

#Focus #Swim #Racing

I hope that young girls will have the dream and will have experiences. And it might not be in swimming. It might be in something else. But I found a passion, and I love it. It's something I love and something I enjoy. It's something I'm good at. And it's what I have been able to give 100 percent to.
-- Katie Ledecky

#Girl #Dream #Passion

And if I'm ahead, I can sometimes tell. It might mean I'm having a good swim, but pretty much, I'm just focused on how fast I'm going, how fast I'm feeling, and pretty much block everything out, the sounds, the sights, just kind of listen to the rhythm of the water, and just maintaining the same stroke, the same rhythm, the same tempo, and thinking about how I want to get my hand to the wall.
-- Katie Ledecky

#Wall #Block #Mean

I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky.And that was a good comment. I swim the way I swim. And I take it as a compliment when somebody says I swim like a man, because, as you said, my stroke is kind of taken after what some of the male freestylers have done. But I'm just trying to go as fast as I can go.
-- Katie Ledecky

#Taken #Thinking #Men

Brains first and then Hard Work.

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.