Betty Cuthbert Quotes

#1. I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

Ira Glass

#2. The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.

Betty Cuthbert

#3. I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

Betty Cuthbert

#4. I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

Betty Cuthbert

#5. I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

Betty Cuthbert

#6. I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.

John Shelby Spong

#7. Valley of the Dogs. Where even if they don't kill you, if someone loves you enough to take you home, they still castrate you.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clarence Thomas

#9. Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

Betty Cuthbert

#10. I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.

Adam Green

#11. I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.

JenniferElizabeth Austin

#12. No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

Betty Cuthbert

#13. The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.

Rosie O'Donnell

#14. My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

Betty Cuthbert

#15. Nothing can fix a broken heart except love. Love always repairs those fractures we get in our heart.

Lindsay McKenna

#16. Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#17. The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#18. You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Betty Cuthbert

#19. My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Betty Cuthbert

#20. What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of
love.

Edward Abbey

#21. Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#22. I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

Earl Campbell

#23. My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

Betty Cuthbert