Osias El Quotes & Sayings

I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind. — Hicham El Guerrouj

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world. — Myles Munroe

The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers. — Walter Lippmann

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II. — Stephen King

To stay youthful, stay useful. — John Keats

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard. — Ron Atkinson

There is an original inside me. — Rumi

but maybe, also, she doesn't know how to talk to us because she's so weird. — Ainslie Hogarth

I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly. — Rodney Atkins