"I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today."

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Source : "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

Dawn Fraser

#Sports Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“I think to each its own, if nobody is hurting anybody-who cares? Everyone should be able to do what they want and be happy. Who you love is who you love. That's the way I see it”
“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.”
“That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.”
“The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.”
“He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.”
“I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.”
“We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.”

Source : "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.
“If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.”

Source : "The Alphabet Of Manliness". Book by Maddox, September 1, 2009.

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