Ryoko Tani quotes

“I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.”
-- Ryoko Tani

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“I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.”
-- Ryoko Tani

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“While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.”
-- Ryoko Tani

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“I will remain active in judo.”
-- Ryoko Tani

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“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”

“I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.”

“Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.”

“I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.”

“...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

“Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.”

“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

“Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.”

“We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.”

“People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.”