"I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park."

-- Paul Tergat

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“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.”
“The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.”
“We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.”
“We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.”
“Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.”
“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.”
“People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.”

Source : "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.
“In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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