Gail Devers Quotes
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.Gail Devers
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.
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Asmat has natural and cultural treasures that await exploration.
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About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!
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We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
Gail Devers
