Amby Burfoot Quotes

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

Amby Burfoot

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• I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • World
  • Man
  • Championship

• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mother
  • Speed
  • Limit

• For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Speed

• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Surprise
  • Speed
  • Secrecy

• A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Strong
  • Speed
  • Push

• Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Boxing

• I've often stopped working for long periods.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Long
  • Working
  • Stopped

• TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Speed
  • Territory
  • Tvs

• Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Speed

• I got too far forward with my skates. I lost a lot of speed and almost went down.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Lost
  • Speed
  • Forward

• Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and the source of power. Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I - Of this great trinity no part deny.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Power

• Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.

  

  H. L. Richardson
  • People
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• If Landau would have been here he would have stopped you after twenty seconds.

  

  Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
  • Time
  • Stopped
  • Landau

• I realized when I stopped Charlie's Angels, I didn't do series for a couple of years. And I realized that from the time I was 5 years old when I started school, I had been told when to get up every morning, where to go then, what to do when I got there, when to have lunch, when to come back, what do to after lunch, when to go home, what to study, when to have dinner, and when to go to bed.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Realized
  • Stopped
  • Charlie`s Angels

• Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Tears
  • Married

• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Dark
  • Lying
  • Snow

• Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

  

  William Davenant
  • Running
  • Seems
  • Speed

• Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Lives
  • Bottom
  • Achievements

• You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

  

  Susannah Grant
  • Feminist
  • Carry
  • Card

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Words

• Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Virtue
  • Sin
  • Amends

• The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't. I always find myself thinking, "I'm getting ready right now, but when I get to the party it's going to be great!" Once at the party, I find myself going, "Man, can't wait to get in bed tonight. I'm pooped." It's like that with my career, too.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Career

• It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Speed
  • Stopped
  • Medals