There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
Quote by Carl Lewis
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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Carl Lewis Quotes
- Life is about timing.
- I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
- 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.
- 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.
- Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
- 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.
- I always separated sports and my personal life.
Best Quotes
- I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.
- I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
- I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
- Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
- Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
- If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
- I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.