"I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective."

-- Daley Thompson

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“For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.”

Source : Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.142, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live.”
“Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.”
“I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.”
“Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.”
“I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.”
“Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it”
“It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.”

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