Clara Hughes famous quotes

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
-- Clara Hughes

#People #Bipolar #Helping

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.
-- Clara Hughes

#Dream #Athlete

Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.
-- Clara Hughes

#Sports #Letting Go #Strong

All the physical comes from the mental.
-- Clara Hughes

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.
-- Clara Hughes

#Beautiful #Believe #Alive

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
-- Clara Hughes

#Hockey #Ice #Goes On

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.
-- Clara Hughes

#Ice #Steps #Skating

I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
-- Clara Hughes

#Winning #Average #Training

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.
-- Clara Hughes

#Cyclists #Kind

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.
-- Clara Hughes

#Want #Limits

I've been in sport for 15 years now and I'm actually shocked at the changes. We had all these things, but we couldn't utilize them. They were not accessible to us. They're actually accessible right now.
-- Clara Hughes

#Sports #Years

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
-- Clara Hughes

#Mean #Differences #Making A Difference

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
-- Clara Hughes

#Sports #Athlete #Endurance

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
-- Clara Hughes

#Baby #Stories #Tiny

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.
-- Clara Hughes

#Passion #Heart #Listening

The struggle I went through has value.
-- Clara Hughes

#Struggle #Values

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.
-- Clara Hughes

#Who I Am #Years #Canada

Ive had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, Ive raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just dont know if I love it enough any more.
-- Clara Hughes

#Cycling #Way #Enough

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.
-- Clara Hughes

#Jobs #Heart #Kids

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
-- Clara Hughes

#Teenager #Exaggeration

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.
-- Clara Hughes

#Inspiration #Eye #People

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
-- Clara Hughes

#Jobs #Goal #Trying

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.
-- Clara Hughes

#Pain #Overcoming #Like You