Shani Davis Quotes

#1. No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.

David Foster Wallace

#2. I usually just write down what I'm doing and how I felt. How I felt if I'm skating fast, compared to if I'm skating slow or if I'm tired. I can always go back and look as a reference and see what I was doing. It's pretty much my life on ice.

Shani Davis

#3. The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer and fall, and I'm always working on technique so that when the actual races come around I'm ready to go.

Shani Davis

#4. I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling.

Shani Davis

#5. Prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

Sophy Burnham

#6. For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them. Matthew 13:15 NKJV Notice

Barry Bennett

#7. Some of the best things in my life have happened to me because I listened to my mother. And some of the worst things in my life have happened to me because I listened to my mother.

Shani Davis

#8. I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

Shani Davis

#9. Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

Mike Pence

#10. No other teammates can help you when you're on the ice by yourself against the clock. So I decided that if I'm going to race on my own, I'm going to train on my own.

Shani Davis

#11. My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

Joanne Froggatt

#12. Being born and raised in Chicago made me tough. It made me strong. I feel like I can deal with anything. I truly believe that in my heart.

Shani Davis

#13. I can be really fast, but other people are in the race. So you've got to be able to maneuver around those guys, and you have to be a little more versatile out there on the ice. I bring my fitness that I gained from the long track over to here. Hopefully, I'll be able to put it to good use.

Shani Davis

#14. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so.

Lord Byron

#15. Things haven't changed since I was a young kid. I just wanted to be the fastest guy I could be, and I am still chasing that dream to this day.

Shani Davis

#16. I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

Shani Davis

#17. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips

#18. I have two hands. I can hold two medals.

Shani Davis

#19. As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.

Shani Davis

#20. The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. I told him I'm not going to marry you and hang on to you like a barnacle, just to keep you to myself and stop you loving anyone else.

Kristin Cashore

#22. What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

Ian McLagan

#23. I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.

Shani Davis

#24. I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.

Shani Davis

#25. Acting is a very strange job.

Lena Olin

#26. When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

Jon Jones

#27. I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

Shani Davis

#28. The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

Charles Hayes

#29. Sometimes I get such paranoia that I refresh and wait and wait in the same page until I get answer???
Why??
I'm not a crazy,...

Deyth Banger

#30. Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

Shani Davis

#31. At the deepest level of what we do as parents, we should hear the heartbeat of a loving, grace-giving Father who freely adopts rebels and transforms them into loving sons and daughters.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#32. Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.

Shani Davis