"I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together."

Source : "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Cathy Freeman

#Leadership Quotes #Believe Quotes #Winning Quotes

“We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great.”
“Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press
“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.”
“The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.”
“...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilisation, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every school.”

Source : "Just for Animals" quoted in "Souls Like Ourselves" by Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, (p. 16), 2000.
“I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency arise: What choices should I make, or do I have to make, if I want to be compensated for my work? Why isn't my art valued on its own?”
“You and I were created by God to be so much more than normalâ€¦Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end itâ€™s a loserâ€™s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.”

Source : Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker (2011). “Through My Eyes”, p.16, Harper Collins
“People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.”

You may also like: