"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on."

-- Emil Zatopek

#Team Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.”
“I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is always sort of unnerving to hear from people who've read my books. I'm not reading any of the reviews and most of my friends haven't read it - they bought it, which is all I frankly care about, but they haven't read it.”
“After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.”
“Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.”

Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
“When weak or injured always continue training as you should always be able to adapt in any condition.”
“Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.”
“Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest.”

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