"Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander."

-- Sebastian Coe

#Sports Quotes #Country Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.”
“There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.”
“Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.”
“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”
“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.”
“The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.”

Source : Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”
“True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!”
“I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing.”

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