Quotes of the Week - Nov 10, 2009:
"I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." --
Bernie Madoff, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in newly released
interview with representatives of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train
set as a kid." --Warren Buffett, investor, on his company's $26
billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - its biggest
deal ever.
"I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears."
-- Rihanna, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention
she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown
in February.
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best
thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion.
My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics. Bob Lilly
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it
looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk
of human nature. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did.
In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like
that in athletics. It's to each their own, really. Parminder Nagra
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team,
but quite easily led my class in academics. William Standish Knowles
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard
work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved
by taking short cuts. Roger Staubach
This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys
than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics
who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different
reasons. Steve Mariucci
We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes,
and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow
our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way. Alberto Juantorena
We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics
careers are over. Alberto Juantorena
We want to promote the great qualities of athletics and maintain
its integrity all over the world. Alberto Juantorena
To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect
the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to
play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according
to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into
practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you
have won the greatest championship. Jesse Owens
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic
Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and
fine art. Avery Brundage
I got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel
like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction
with acting for me. Ed Harris
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don’t
force them to run too much competition. Arthur Lydiard
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because
in those days the overwhelming number of students came from
more of a public school background than I did. Roger Bannister
Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics,
I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their
own personal dream, whatever that may be – sports, medicine,
whatever. The same principles apply. Break it into bite-size
chunks that seem possible, and then don't give up. Just keep
plugging away. John Naber The swimmer and four-time Olympic Gold
Medalist.
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are
sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking
for the faculty. Clark Kerr
The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races,
imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle
here where the broad prairies that are the world’s most
fertile collection of farm fields meet the vast Great Lakes
that are the world’s largest collection of fresh water. Andrew H. Malcolm
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. Douglas William Jerrold
I didn’t get an athletics scholarship at a major school. Edwin Moses
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons
at school. Alberto Juantorena
Winning a medal is what every athlete dreams of, and if it is
the Olympic gold then that is the icing on the cake. Jeff Fenech
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training
and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may
think. Haile Gebrselassie
This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys
than ever before. That’s not to say all the people in athletics
who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different
reasons. Steve Mariucci
Many books about teaching, coaching, and motivational techniques
and sayings can be of great help to the educational staff and
team leaders. Mental training and body training should always
go together in the formation of an athlete. Talent and skills
are very important, and so is the athlete’s commitment,
but a great impulse is given through motivational sayings to
work your way of athlete up to the top. Author Unknown
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard
work has preceded the effort.Only temporary success is achieved
by taking short cuts. Roger Staubach
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds! Jesse Owens
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