Noureddine Quotes

#1. When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

Noureddine Morceli

#2. Perfect, you say? That was your problem. It is our imperfections that make us endlessly fascinating.

Kathryn Craft

#3. Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

#4. And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

Noureddine Morceli

#5. I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.

Noureddine Morceli

#6. Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

Noureddine Morceli

#7. (Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

Noureddine Morceli

#8. I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

Noureddine Morceli

#9. My real motivation is to reach 3:25 ... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

Noureddine Morceli

#10. Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

W. H. Auden

#11. It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

Noureddine Morceli

#12. And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

Adrian Lyne

#13. Those whom we did not know think they know us now.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#14. I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

Hermann Maier

#15. I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

David Levithan

#16. The key was stealthily leveraging and launching, then asking for forgiveness,

Jacquie McNish

#17. Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

Noureddine Morceli

#18. If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.

Maya Banks

#19. A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale

#20. So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Matthew Modine

#21. The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.

Benito Martinez

#22. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

Joe Hyams

#23. Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Brian Tracy

#24. I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

Noureddine Morceli

#25. The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

Noureddine Morceli