"I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world."

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Source : "The one that came the longest way!". "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

Dawn Fraser

#Swim Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.”

Source : "This much I know: Dionne Warwick". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.
“It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.”

Source : "Risky business: Do I stay or go?" by Nick Easen, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2003.
“It would take one million men, one hundred years”
“God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly”
“Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.”
“You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.”
“There's no wrong time to make the right decision.”
“I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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