"The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better."

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Source : Bryce Courtenay (2006). “The Power Of One”, p.676, Penguin UK

Bryce Courtenay

#Running Quotes #Believe Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.”
“Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.”
“Life is a school of the spirit.”
“The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.”

Source : Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press
“Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.”

Source : John Bunyan, George Burder (1821). “The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World, Or The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul”, p.13
“God is looking for nobodies who will become somebodies in his hands.”
“If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.”
“Horse racing is animated roulette.”

Source : Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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