"When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete."

-- Dick Fosbury

#Athlete Quotes #Levels Quotes #Competing Quotes

“Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.22
“As what you first are moves in the context of form, you have real reflection within that form, real reflection of what you are, what you are being and what you are doing. The movement in form enables you to comprehend what you are.”
“In my dream world gay people in America would get the right to marry, and not a one of them would use that right.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order”
“Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.”
“It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.”

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