"As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure."

-- Mitch Gaylord

#Pressure Quotes #Competitors Quotes #Deals Quotes

“I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.”
“Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 233. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“Good travel books are novels at heart.”

Source : Recalled by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the NewYorkTimes, 26 Jan1987, reviewing Raban's novel Coasting (1986).
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
“Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.”
“Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .”
“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally youâ€™re right.”
“I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.”

You may also like:

Mary Lou Retton
Gymnast
Maxwell Caulfield
Film actor
Nadia Comaneci
Gymnast
Peter Vidmar
Gymnast