"Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction."

-- June Goodfield

#Race Quotes #Example Quotes #Rats Quotes

“I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.”

Source : "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here And Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.
“I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.”
“In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.”
“Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.”
“On Iâ€™ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot â€“ I, so big and by no one needed?”
“I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.”
“I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic.”
“Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.”

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