"I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic."

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Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

Gerry Lindgren

#Running Quotes #Team Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.”
“I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.”
“I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.”
“We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.”
“There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.”
“I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.”
“I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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