"Back in the day however, careers were strictly built on competitions, just like surfing, though surfing is changing too so you can free surf and still get paid. So I think that rivalry was really because of the fans and the media who built it up, but it did bring something exciting about the sport, just like in any sport, whether it's Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, I think it just made skating that much more exciting."

-- Christian Hosoi

#Sports Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes

“Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.”
“I could kiss you in the rain forever Turn all your pain to pleasure Fill up all your days with sunlight Make the passion last every night Give you my every possesion Make you my only obsession Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above But I could never love you enough”
“Every great man is unique.”
“What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?”

Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.37, Penguin
“ThereÂ´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)”
“Your actions are living affirmations of what you say you believe and feel. â€˜Affirmative actionâ€™ is when your actions are in congruence with your beliefs & feelings. Youâ€™re doing it to make YOU welcome.”
“My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.”
“Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.”

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