Ron Pickering quotes

“The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.”
-- Ron Pickering

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“Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front”
-- Ron Pickering

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“Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.”
-- Ron Pickering

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“Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream”
-- Ron Pickering

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“And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been”
-- Ron Pickering

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“Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender”
-- Ron Pickering

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“The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment”
-- Ron Pickering

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“The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals”
-- Ron Pickering

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“Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier”
-- Ron Pickering

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“My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.”

“Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.”

“We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.”

“As a nation, we have never embraced aging.”

Source : "10 secrets of the anti-aging industry" by Elizabeth O'Brien, www.marketwatch.com. February 13, 2014.

“I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.”

“History teaches that nations do not learn from history.”

“How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?”

Source : Bruce Poon Tip (2013). “Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business”, p.153, Hachette UK

“America is an unusually religious nation.”

Source : "America Has a Prayer" by Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 6, 2012.

“Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.”

“Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.”