Ken Wallace Quotes

Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.

Ken Wallace

• Team
• Boat

Until 2005, I still thought of my surf lifesaving career as fulltime and kayaking as a pastime. I watched the 2004 Athens Olympics and saw people racing that I knew I could beat, and that was probably the turning point: I decided I should either do it properly or stop wasting time kayaking and concentrate fully on Ironman.

Ken Wallace

• People
• Time
• Career

Making the Australian team is the hardest part, and going to the Olympics is the easy part. You're there representing your country - you're representing every single person in it, strangers you don't know - and there's a lot of positive energy, but you have to know to channel it the right way.

Ken Wallace

• Country
• Energy
• Team

My biggest motivation is knowing what it feels like to win medals and thinking that I want that feeling again. It was incredible to succeed in Beijing and come home to your whole country behind you but, importantly, all your family and friends.

Ken Wallace

• Thinking
• Country
• Family

Before the last Olympics, we had meat raffles at the local surf club to get petrol money to go to training, to help out with the bills. But I know there are a lot of athletes worse off and that all athletes, at some stage of their careers, have made sacrifices.

Ken Wallace

• Money
• Help
• Training

I just love racing: I'll even race you to the door.

Ken Wallace

• Door