Thorpe Quotes

#1. How could I have known, back then, that the white house across the park would belong to Cassidy Thorpe? That out of a row of nearly identical McMansions, there'd be one window in particular I searched out every night before bed, looking for secret messages?

Robyn Schneider

#2. But I didn't care, because the magnificent possibility of kissing Cassidy Thorpe had turned into an indisputable fact of my daily existence ...

Robyn Schneider

#3. Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth. There won't be a place you hide where I can't find you. I will never stop looking. I will never give up. I will never let you go when I can save you. - Mitchell Thorpe

Shayla Black

#4. I can honestly say that in my time in America, I have not encountered any racism. When Jim Thorpe and I make fun of each other on the range, or even when a white player makes a joke about my color, I take it as what it is-a joke-and give it back accordingly.

Vijay Singh

#5. Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.

Russell Means

#6. Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

Michael Phelps

#7. My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

Randy Castillo

#8. Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#9. There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician. He

Susanna Clarke

#10. I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

Lee Trevino

#11. Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it.

Rufi Thorpe

#12. I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

Ian Thorpe

#13. I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

Ian Thorpe

#14. I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Ian Thorpe

#15. I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

Ian Thorpe

#16. Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

Ian Thorpe

#17. Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for young people out there, know that thats usually what the answer is.

Ian Thorpe

#18. What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.

Rufi Thorpe

#19. How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

Rufi Thorpe

#20. I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

Ian Thorpe

#21. yes, yes, yes. I was and am awful and terrible.

Rufi Thorpe

#22. Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thing that anybody does.

Rufi Thorpe

#23. Money will never buy happiness, but managing your money well can provide the peace of mind that will allow you to focus your family on what matters most.

Devin D. Thorpe

#24. What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny.

Rufi Thorpe

#25. My life was worth nothing except the books I read,

Rufi Thorpe

#26. This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

Ian Thorpe

#27. I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

Jim Thorpe

#28. The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

Jim Thorpe

#29. I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

Ian Thorpe

#30. I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

Ian Thorpe

#31. It didn't matter how terrified I was. It didn't matter that there was no solution to the problem we faced. We would simply have to face it anyway. we didn't have to be brave or heroic, we merely had to persist. And I found that I could do that.

Rufi Thorpe

#32. I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.

Graham Thorpe

#33. I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

Jim Thorpe

#34. There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

Ian Thorpe

#35. I never was content unless I was trying my skill ... or testing my endurance.

Jim Thorpe

#36. The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

Ian Thorpe

#37. For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

Ian Thorpe

#38. Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

Jim Thorpe

#39. What I had always loved most about literature was the way it eased my own loneliness. Even

Rufi Thorpe

#40. Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

James Thorpe

#41. Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

Ian Thorpe

#42. hair that she often pinned back with

Helen Thorpe

#43. I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.

Graham Thorpe

#44. You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

Wilkie Collins

#45. I'm still swimming.

Ian Thorpe

#46. I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Ian Thorpe

#47. I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

Ian Thorpe

#48. The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't have the strength to do it, the courage to break that lie. But everyone goes on their own path to do this, and I don't want the struggle to be so hard for other people.

Ian Thorpe

#49. Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.

Ian Thorpe

#50. She carried herself like a dishonored queen. Even the way she held her head at an angle as she considered the buildings around us seemed watched and pretentious, and I thought about my mother saying there was something toxic about being very beautiful. It must be terrible to be a woman.

Rufi Thorpe

#51. There is a very simple reason why Lion El'Jonson did not take part in the final battles of the Horus Heresy. It is beautifully simple, when you consider it. He was waiting.'
'Waiting for what?' Boreas asked quietly.
'He was waiting to see which side won, of course.

Gav Thorpe

#52. When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

Ian Thorpe

#53. People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ... let my body do what it knows

Ian Thorpe

#54. If we'd never met, you might have had a more peaceful life without calamity.

And I would have quietly grown old without challenge or interest. How dull!

Thomas Thorpe

#55. It wasn't that Lorrie Ann was becoming a Goody Two-shoes. It wasn't that she wanted to be perfect or loved or approved of. No. She wanted something much more dangerous. She wanted meaning. And she thought it could be gotten by following the rules.

Rufi Thorpe

#56. I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

Ian Thorpe

#57. Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

Ian Thorpe

#58. I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.

Jim Thorpe

#59. When you keep those tired, old memories in your mind's eye, you continue to create your present just like your past

Simmone Thorpe