"I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history."

-- Al Oerter

#Throwers Quotes

“If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world”
“Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.”
“Unreasonable is very relative.”
“In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.”
“I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.”

Source : Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com
“The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
“The more I make the more I can give away.”
“So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.”

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