"I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me."

-- Paula Radcliffe

#Feelings Quotes #Trying Quotes #Athens Quotes

“Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.”
“Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win.”
“My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.”
“That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.”
“The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.”
“The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.”
“I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.”

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

You may also like:

Deena Kastor
Olympic athlete
Haile Gebrselassie
Olympic athlete
Jessica Ennis
Track and field athlete
Kara Goucher
Olympic athlete
Kelly Holmes
Olympic athlete
Mohamed Farah
Olympic athlete
Sebastian Coe
British Politician
Shalane Flanagan
Runner
Catherine Ndereba
Olympic athlete