Kipchoge Keino quotes
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“There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.”
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“As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.”
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“When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'”
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“This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.”
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“Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice.”
-- Kipchoge Keino
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“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
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“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”
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Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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“Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.”
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“I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.”
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“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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