Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then.. Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport.. In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it. Louis Zamperini
Running isn't a sport for pretty boys.. It's about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough...
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Paul Maurer
Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
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Mia Hamm
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
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Criss Jami
The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.
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Dave Barry
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
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John Bingham
More Quotes By Louis Zamperini
Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.
The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.
(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
