Jordy Smith quotes

Jordy Smith quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.”
-- Jordy Smith

#Champion Quotes #World Quotes
“Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one early exit, and let's just hope Snapper was mine.”
-- Jordy Smith

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“In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.”
“You're the WWE Champion and I would never let you down!”
“One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.”

Source : "Strategy and Conscience" by Anatol Rapoport, Harper & Row, (p. 195), 1964.
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”

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