Leisel Jones Quotes

#1. I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

Leisel Jones

#2. I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

Leisel Jones

#3. I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

Leisel Jones

#4. I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.

Leisel Jones

#5. Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

Leisel Jones

#6. I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

Leisel Jones

#7. For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

Grant Bowler

#8. In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Martha Beck

#9. Niki Behrikis Shanahan

Niki Behrikis Shanahan

#10. It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Jeffrey Kluger

#11. ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

Tom Gjelten

#12. It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

Leisel Jones

#13. The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

Anais Nin

#14. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.

Miguel Ruiz

#15. Life is amazing, and it's awful, and it's ordinary, mundane and routine, but like the sun behind the clouds, amazing is always there regardless of what is momentarily obscuring it.

Maximus Freeman

#16. I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

Sanjay Kumar