Leisel Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.
-- Leisel Jones

#Swimming #Swim #Limits
It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous
-- Leisel Jones

#Sports #Athlete #People
I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.
-- Leisel Jones

#Sports #Winning #Everyday
I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast
-- Leisel Jones

#Sports #Swim #Desire
It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.
-- Leisel Jones

#Sports #Media #People
Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.
-- Leisel Jones

#Sports #Believe #Race
I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is
-- Leisel Jones

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Thinking
I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.
-- Leisel Jones

#Sports #Good Friend #World

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.
It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.

Leisel Jones famous quotes

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