Kirsty Coventry Quotes

#1. In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Kirsty Coventry

#2. There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

Kirsty Coventry

#3. I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

Kirsty Coventry

#4. Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.

Elena Ferrante

#5. Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.

Kirsty Coventry

#6. I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

Gregory Maguire

#7. That she was both fearless and fragile and could be hurt badly in ways he could not fix.

Megan Abbott

#8. Everyone there including President Mugabe knows something needs to change because so many people are hurting.

Kirsty Coventry

#9. Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.

Sam Owen

#10. From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

Dirk Benedict

#11. People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.

Kirsty Coventry

#12. The voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

David Hume

#13. He seemed to be in so many places at the same time that they grew to think that he'd be duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all through the house, and the exasperated and unhinged Elisenda shouted that it was awful living in that hell full of angels.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

Kirsty Coventry

#15. It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

Kirsty Coventry

#16. I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Gloria Steinem

#17. But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#18. The shrewd hunt foxes,
the strong hunt lions,
but the mighty hunt elephants.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

John Hickenlooper

#20. All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg