"I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics."

--

Source : "Exclusive: Gold Medal Winner Hannah Kearney On Her Olympic Experience" by Hannah Kearney, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2010.

Hannah Kearney

#Winning Quotes #Gold Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.”
“With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?”
“The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.”
“I am not the fastest but I am always as fast as I need to be.”
“You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you canâ€™t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.”
“The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.18, Vintage
“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.”
“In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.”

You may also like:

Apolo Ohno
Short Track Speed Skater