"People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows"

-- Ian Thorpe

#Sports Quotes #Race Quotes #People Quotes

“What it takes to survive out here is order, I realize and say to myself, â€˜Divide the day into equal periods. See this travel alarm? You get up, don your uniform, move according to the bell.â€™”

Source : Mary Robison (2001). “Why Did I Ever”, Counterpoint LLC
“Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.”
“The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.”

Source : "Trick Daddy denies beef with Rick Ross, says he's not responsible for prison-guard rumors" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 28, 2008.
“No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.48
“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.”
“My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.”
“Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.”
“You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.”

You may also like:

Kieren Perkins
Swimmer
Mark Spitz
Swimmer
Michael Klim
Swimmer
Michael Parkinson
Broadcaster
Michael Phelps
Swimmer
Missy Franklin
Swimmer
Ricky Martin
Musician
Ryan Lochte
Swimmer
James Magnussen
Swimmer