Lolo Jones Quotes

#1. In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

Mark Mirabello

#2. You told me I was the best sex you'd ever had in your life ... You couldn't get enough ... At one point you were so loud I thought sure hotel security was going to beat down the door.

Rachel Gibson

#3. There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.

Lolo Jones

#4. Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

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#5. Deep squats work so many muscles in your body. Once a week, I do three sets of six, or eight of the free-bar ones, which can help out your balance and work more muscles than doing them on the machine.

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#6. I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

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#7. If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.

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#8. Believe it or not, Twitter calms me down. I enjoy interacting with people.

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#9. God is the greatest knitter of hearts. When another's heart is committed to ours, that person will stand with us in our wait and help ward off the naysayers.

Wendy Pope

#10. Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

Jane Urquhart

#11. To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about ... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up ... Your muscles trick you; they did me.

Richard Pryor

#12. The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.

Lolo Jones

#13. It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

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#14. A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

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#15. May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.

Heber J. Grant

#16. There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

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#17. Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression
this is the Mystery of its evolution.

Arnold Mindell

#18. Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

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#19. I am training at such a high level that I actually could eat anything and get by. But as my coach always says, your body is like a car, and food is like your fuel. I am a race car, so I can't just put unleaded fuel in my car. I need that good premium fuel.

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#20. I definitely would say, by sixth grade, I was a professional shoplifter - and not because I wanted to. I'm not going out to shoplift earrings or clothes or shoes like the average teenager. I was shoplifting frozen dinners at a grocery store.

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#21. But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

George Eliot

#22. I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

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#23. I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

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#24. The question isn't what will a mother do to save her child. The question is, what won't a mother do to save her child!

Sunanda J. Chatterjee

#25. Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

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#26. Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.

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#27. A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

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#28. We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

Barack Obama

#29. In education, parody is obsolete.

Alfie Kohn

#30. Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don't look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

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#31. Thank you very much," the girl said. "You know that another woman, or a woman in memory, is a terrible thing for a young girl to deal with when she is still without experience.

Ernest Hemingway,

#32. As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

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#33. If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

Jonathan Kozol

#34. When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

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#35. Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

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#36. (I'm not crazy about the word diet, which implies a heroic and temporary effort rather than a sustainable and joyful way of eating).

T. Colin Campbell