"I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been."

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Source : "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

Eric Heiden

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“I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.”
“Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.”

Source : Song: Dancing with Myself
“I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child.”
“The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time”
“Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.”
“And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew....”
“Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is simply the influence that science plays in my life: working in laboratories, thinking of models, hypothesis, putting things together, trying to make sense of it all and so forth.”
“Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.”

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