Shane Gould famous quotes

I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.
-- Shane Gould

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You always catch the wrong players.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.