I always separated sports and my personal life.
Quote by Carl Lewis
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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Carl Lewis Quotes
- Life is about timing.
- We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
- To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
- I always separated sports and my personal life.
- There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
- The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
- I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
- People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
- I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
- Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
Best Quotes
- The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
- People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
- Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
- When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
- It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
- Love is mandatory. Every one loves to be loved but it can't always be your way. Let people love you in their own way, in a way they know how to. There is no need for coercion.
- The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
- I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
- Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.