Donovan Bailey Quotes

#1. The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.

Ilana Mercer

#2. I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

Donovan Bailey

#3. Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan ... The Ku Klux's gone ... It'll never come back.

Harper Lee

#4. You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

Donovan Bailey

#5. I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out ... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

Donovan Bailey

#6. I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

Donovan Bailey

#7. But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.

L.J.Smith

#8. The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

Will Durant

#9. In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

Donovan Bailey

#10. Always educate yourself.

Donovan Bailey

#11. I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

Donovan Bailey

#12. I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Donovan Bailey

#13. Let it go to feel the freshness of life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Donovan Bailey

#15. I think that every single person should play sports.

Donovan Bailey

#16. Born evil? I know of no such person, even in the annals of crime or in the biographies of despots. The answer here is no.

Michael H. Stone

#17. I will storm the gods, and shake the universe.

Seneca.

#18. I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

Donovan Bailey

#19. I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Craig Brewer

#20. Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

Donovan Bailey

#21. I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

Donovan Bailey

#22. But the more you make the choice to live above your feelings, to trust God instead of what you may feel like doing, the stronger your faith becomes. It's not about being perfect. We will always been on a journey of growing closer to God.

Tim Tebow

#23. As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

David Slade

#24. The sword was called Caledfwlch, which means 'hard lightning' though Igraine prefers to call it Excalibur

Bernard Cornwell