Amby Burfoot Quotes

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Amby Burfoot

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• Winning
• Struggle
• Optimism

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Enjoy

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Loved
  • Been
  • Ever

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • She

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Losing

• I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Born

• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Because
  • Price
  • Oil

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Truth
  • Become
  • Pet

• I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Name

• I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cute

• Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.

  

  Tacitus

• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Words

• To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Opportunity
  • Ideas
  • Company

• I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Needs
  • Adapt
  • Workouts

• My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Soul
  • I Think
  • Suffer

• That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Disease

• Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Winning