""Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.""

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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“From the moment that you don't fear to share your heart, you are a free person.”
“I think those walks to the studio were the most enjoyable times for me, because I could get lost in my head and think about what I wanted the album to sound like as I was writing. For the most part, it was great to have all that time alone writing the songs.”
“I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.”
“Everybody has their own path. I just believe that with conviction and discipline you can make anything happen.”
“Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.”
“I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.”
“Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.”
“And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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