"I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons."

-- Frank Shorter

#Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes #Different Quotes

“When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.”
“NOTHING is impossible to you.”
“The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.”
“Reading is more important to me than eating.”
“Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.”
“Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.”

Source : "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.
“I'm a kid from Boston.”
“I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.”

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