Martin Lel Quotes
My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
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There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.
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I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.
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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
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The annual 'Forbes' Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies.
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The right name is an advertisement in itself.
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My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.
