Al Oerter Quotes

#1. I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

Bob Beamon

#2. Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Claude Bernard

#3. As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Oerter

#4. To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Al Oerter

#5. Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Al Oerter

#6. I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

Al Oerter

#7. I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

Al Oerter

#8. There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Al Oerter

#9. You just came out of the hospital ten days ago," Milo reminded him reprovingly. "You can't keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don't like. No, the best thing to do is fly the missions. It's our duty.

Joseph Heller

#10. My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.

Aerin Lauder

#11. I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Al Oerter

#12. As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

William Shakespeare

#13. My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

Roman Polanski

#14. I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

Philippe Halsman

#15. No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.

Pierre-Paul Grasse

#16. So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al Oerter