"I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working."

-- David Rudisha

#Finals Quotes #Records Quotes #World Quotes

“There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.”
“Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.”
“Truth may have been found but might never be known.”
“Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.”
“I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.”

Source : "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”

Source : Jules Verne (1969). “20,000 leagues under the sea”, Signet Classics
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
“It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.”

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