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You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Haruki Murakami
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Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!
Lopez Lomong
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I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.
Bryan Clay
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"Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't ""Give me education or give me death."""
Dick Gregory
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Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.
Dick Gregory
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Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently running my fingers over her cheek. I marveled at the softness of her skin, the gentleness I saw in her eyes. Even now she was perfect.
Nicholas Sparks
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I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.
Dean Karnazes
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Find me now. Before someone else does.
Haruki Murakami
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At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.
Jackie Robinson
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
Haruki Murakami
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Competing at the Olympics is the pinnacle of your career. Everything is amplified, and you feel so proud to represent your country. You're there with athletes from all over the world. Everyone is coming together, putting differences aside.
Allyson Felix
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee is actually someone I have a personal relationship with and who continues to do amazing things in her community. I continue to be inspired by her. If I can emulate myself after someone it's her and I just hope to have that effect on my community and continue to go on to do things like she has.
Allyson Felix
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I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.
Allyson Felix
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I feel like my name completely does not belong on that list [of great athlets], but I'm completely grateful for everything that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have done.
Allyson Felix
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I feel like I'm always going to be me. It always goes back to being the person that I am. And I hope that will never change.
Allyson Felix
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Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.
Allyson Felix
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I had worked so hard that was my opportunity. And my mom was just able to turn it around for me. She helped me to be able to see the other side of things and that this is not the end for me.
Allyson Felix
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My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation.
Allyson Felix
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I'm passionate about my sport and grateful that I get to do it for a living.
Allyson Felix
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I'm an athlete who's very determined and I understand sacrifice.
Allyson Felix
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I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.
Allyson Felix
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If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.
Allyson Felix
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I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.
Allyson Felix
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