"There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition."

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Mary Lou Retton

#Heart Quotes #Games Quotes #Competition Quotes

“I don't know what people want. I have delusions of grandeur, but I'm not sitting here talking to you and thinking that I'm the ***** President. I want to know everything, but I just can't.”
“Be superior to pleasure.”
“It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity”
“The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.”
“Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.”
“Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.”
“Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."”
“In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.”

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