Quotes About Sally Pearson

#1. Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

Adyashanti

#2. Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

Sally Pearson

#3. My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Sally Pearson

#4. Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

Sally Pearson

#5. When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

Sally Pearson

#6. I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Sally Pearson

#7. I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

Sally Pearson

#8. Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

Fr. Seraphim Rose

#9. Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Sally Pearson

#10. I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

Sally Pearson

#11. The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

Gloria Steinem

#12. I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training. I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Sally Pearson

#13. I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Nick Cave

#14. Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

Sally Pearson

#15. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

E.W. Howe

#16. I remembered when I'd closed it up at the start of the war, remembered when I'd thought of the trunk as a coffin for the young man I would never be again

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

Sally Pearson

#18. I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.

Qiu Xiaolong

#19. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.

Idries Shah

#20. I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

David Fincher

#21. Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.

Madonna Ciccone

#22. But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

Sally Pearson

#23. The way of love is the way of elevation.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.

Sally Pearson

#25. My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Sally Pearson

#26. If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

Sally Pearson

#27. Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

Sally Pearson