"It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible."

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Source : "Graceful Kwan still seeking gold" by Bob Phillips, www.espn.com.

Michelle Kwan

#Winning Quotes #Titles Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.”
“I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.”
“Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.”
“It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.”
“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
“We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.”

Source : Chloe Hooper (2009). “Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”

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