"I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Cathy Freeman

#Senior Quotes #Running Quotes #Team Quotes

“The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.”
“Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.”
“He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.”
“In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.121, University of Oklahoma Press
“I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.”
“Although your physical body was created, you are the one who makes this body function. In other words, you are the divine life known as God. I call it a life branching out from God.”

Source : "Living Like the Blue Sky".
“Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.”
“Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.”

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