Quotes About Dawn Fraser

#1. I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Dawn Fraser

#2. I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

Dawn Fraser

#3. I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Jason Robert Brown

#4. I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.

Alex Ferguson

#5. I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

Dawn Fraser

#6. I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

Dawn Fraser

#7. We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

Dawn Fraser

#8. A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot, which is fine with me. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as a 'what-if' question ...

Stephen King

#9. Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

Dawn Fraser

#10. Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS.

Miya Yamanouchi

#11. And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

Jim Bolger

#12. If you're good at it, you can win.

Dawn Fraser

#13. The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Dawn Fraser

#14. I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

Brittany Murphy

#15. Another reason why people take me seriously is because I never apologise even when - no, especially when I should,' he told her coolly. 'No pleases, thank yous or sorries - remember that and you might have that interesting year I was talking about.

Sarra Manning

#16. It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.

Dawn Fraser

#17. I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

Jean M. Auel

#18. God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through.

Charles R. Swindoll

#19. I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

Dawn Fraser

#20. I've worked hard all my life.

Dawn Fraser

#21. I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital ... He said, 'You have a gift ... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

Dawn Fraser