Quotes
Authors
Liam Tancock
"Swimming has given me a lot. It's given me a respect for people and different cultures around the world when I've been competing abroad. I've learnt many life skills and met so many friends around the world that I might not have had otherwise. I'm focused and driven and I guess swimming has made me that way." --
Liam Tancock
#Swimming Quotes
#Skills Quotes
#People Quotes
“Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.”
“We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.”
“If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?”
“Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.”
“Free your mind from the colonization of thinking within the obtuse parameters of 'right' and 'left', of conservatives and liberals.”
“Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.”
“If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”
“Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.”
