"Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken,"

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Source : Misty May-Treanor (2010). “Misty: Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

Misty May-Treanor

#Sacrifice Quotes #Winning Quotes #Years Quotes

“As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.”
“They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.”
“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Source : Hanan Al-Shaykh (2010). “Women of Sand and Myrrh”, p.352, A&C Black
“Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.”
“No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.”
“A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?”
“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.”
“I'd never hurt a woman or a child. It's just not in me.”

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