"My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good."

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Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

Dorothy Hamill

#Politician Quotes #Coaches Quotes

“The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.”
“Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.”
“If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.”
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
“The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”
“Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.92, Highlights Press
“There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.”
“There are two types of racers- cheaters and losers.”

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