"I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Ian Thorpe

#Swimming Quotes #Training Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.”
“Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.”
“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town .. a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. â€œMy grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.”

Source : "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.
“I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.”
“I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.”
“No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.”

Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.64, Booklassic
“When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.”
“Our success comes from stability.”

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