Jean Claude Killy Quotes

#1. Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.

Jenny Trout

#2. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#3. If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.

Lewis B. Smedes

#4. I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

Bert Blyleven

#5. To win you have to risk loss.

Jean-Claude Killy

#6. Give more, feel more, love more, the universe will be yours.

Debasish Mridha

#7. People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

Jean-Claude Killy

#8. The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy

#9. The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Saint Augustine

#10. Under stress, women tended to cry it away. Men tended to get angry and lash out.

Craig Alanson

#11. When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

Gene Tierney

#12. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.

Richard Rohr

#13. I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.

Jean-Claude Killy

#14. Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#15. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no prose at all. He knew.

Graham Greene

#16. Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.

George Herbert