"I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes."

-- Daley Thompson

#Athlete Quotes #Games Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.”
“Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.356
“If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.”
“I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.”
“I grew up in one of the biggest high schools in the world, and that's the Disney Channel. Everybody was falling in love with each other or not liking each other, and it was exhausting and I was the shy one in the corner. And now I'm so opinionated, and I don't have time for the cattiness. I have good people around me, and I'm glad I'm at the place I'm in. I wish I was there back then.”
“I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.”
“The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.”

Source : Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”
“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”

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