"We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold."

-- Betty Okino

#Gymnastics Quotes #Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.”
“I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.”
“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”
“The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.”

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“We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.”
“At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.”
“All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.”
“My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that Iâ€™ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . . . Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with?”

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