"I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it."

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Source : "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family" by Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#Adversity Quotes #Past Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.”
“Autumn is a reminder that while the leaves die and fall, Â there will always be Spring, a chance to replenish and be reborn again. We all have the opportunity to replenish ourselves, to be reborn.”
“Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. June 15, 2006.
“The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.”
“There's a little part of you at all times that hopes to be somewhat objectified, and I think it's healthy.”
“You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.”

Source : "Establishing a Food Forest". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.”
“Anticipation and Hope are born twins.”

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