Track Hurdler Quotes & Sayings

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious. — Charles Barkley

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Foolish Lily," he said. "Don't you know why I haven't touched you? Didn't you guess that once you were in my arms I would never let you go? — Connie Brockway

To have something does not mean to understand it. — Sunday Adelaja

We are made for loving. — Desmond Tutu

When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler. — Rod Milburn

The first thing a hurdler learns is how to fall. — Tonie Campbell

At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow. — Neil Gaiman

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up. — Diana Nyad

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be. — Tony Dungy

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot. — Doug Collins

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment. — Rod Milburn

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. — George Saunders

That is why I decline to recognize the mere
multimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of value to any country;
and especially as not an asset to my own country. If he has earned or uses his
wealth in a way that makes him a real benefit, of real use- and such is often the
case- why, then he does become an asset of real worth. — Theodore Roosevelt

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh

If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug. — Barry Diller

I know that I do deserve good things. — Amanda Beard