Donna de Varona famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A great champion deals with setback with a comeback,
-- Donna de Varona

#Champion #Comeback #Deals
The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.
-- Donna de Varona

#Stress #Team #Athlete
Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.
-- Donna de Varona

#Giving Up #Failure #Hands
I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with her. Recently, a mother asked me how I got my children to swim laps. The truth is, I've never asked my children to do laps. They see me do laps and want to do it with me. Parental participation is one way.
-- Donna de Varona

#Leadership #Sports #Daughter
Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.
-- Donna de Varona

#Men #Games #London
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.
-- Donna de Varona

#Sports #Player #Self

Persistence is the soul of a champion.
In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
I want to be a writer someday.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

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