"Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming."

-- Clare Balding

#Swimming Quotes #Cycling Quotes #Games Quotes

“I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.”
“This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.”
“To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.”
“Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.”

Source : Rodrigue Tremblay, Paul Kurtz (2010). “The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles”
“I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.”
“Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.”

Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.2, Bantam
“So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--”
“O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!”

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