"It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result."

-- Apolo Ohno

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“I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.”
“Donâ€™t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest thatâ€™s long enough!”
“I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.”
“Give the lady what she wants!”

Source : Quoted in Lloyd Wendt, Give the Lady What She Wants! (1952)
“You can't say the secret word!”
“Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.426, Macmillan
“Shade and light are different in every valley.”

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