Leisel Jones quotes
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“I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.”
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“It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous”
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“I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.”
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“I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast”
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“It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.”
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“Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.”
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“I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.”
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“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.”
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books
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“My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.”
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