"At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time."

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Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Jill Douglas

#Athlete Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.”

Source : "SLAYER's TOM ARAYA: JEFF HANNEMAN's Death 'Has Changed Everything'". Interview with Brian Aberback, www.blabbermouth.net. October 22, 2013.
“The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.”
“War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.”
“Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.”
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.”
“The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.”
“People who demand signs never believe them when they come.”

Source : Michael Card (2012). “Mark: The Gospel of Passion”, p.106, InterVarsity Press
“If you don't have personal goals, you're controlled by those who do.”

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