Benita Johnson quotes

Benita Johnson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win.”
-- Benita Johnson

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“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”
“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”
“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”
“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”
“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
“Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age”
“An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.”
“Dancers are the athletes of God.”

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