Top 37 Edwin Moses Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Edwin Moses

#1. Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases.

Paul Kalanithi

#2. I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

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#3. One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

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#4. I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

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#5. I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

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#6. My father was an all-American football player.

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#7. I overcame size with mechanics.

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#8. There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.

Thomas Merton

#9. Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

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#10. I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

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#11. You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."

Viola Davis

#12. The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

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#13. You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what other influences are.

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#14. No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

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#15. Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

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#16. No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde

Allen Mack

#17. In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

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#18. My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

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#19. Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

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#20. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

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#22. I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

Jay-Z

#23. I was always more of an academic than a jock.

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#24. I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

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#25. I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.

Elizabeth Berg

#26. There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

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#27. I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

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#28. I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.

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#29. Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.

Thomas Huxley

#30. Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.

Neale Donald Walsch