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I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I want to win medals for myself.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I want people to tell me the truth.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people an...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every ath...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

At primary school, it was always me and this other girl, Lauren, who would fight over who was the fa...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the ro...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I pra...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - th...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunitie...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morni...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It'...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opport...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to...
KATARINA WITT

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the oth...
KATARINA WITT

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on...
KATARINA WITT

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
KATARINA WITT

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
KATARINA WITT

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
KATARINA WITT

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get alw...
KATARINA WITT

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
KATARINA WITT

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
KATARINA WITT

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
KATARINA WITT

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rathe...
KATARINA WITT

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have...
KATARINA WITT

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
KATARINA WITT

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and de...
KATARINA WITT

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to t...
KATARINA WITT

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
KATARINA WITT

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
KATARINA WITT

When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that y...
KATARINA WITT

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I wa...
KATARINA WITT

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
KATARINA WITT

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
KATARINA WITT

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
KATARINA WITT

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because ...
KATARINA WITT

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, ...
KATARINA WITT

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
KATARINA WITT

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
KATARINA WITT

It was heartbreaking. After [the second jump], she was so upset that she nailed everything out of an...
KATARINA WITT

She took a day of rest, which is fine. She is physically prepared, and maybe she doesn't need that d...
KATARINA WITT

When you're young, you travel with your parents. When you get older you bring your husband with you....
KATARINA WITT It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.
KATARINA BIVALD

He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. He was young and naive.
KATARINA WITT

What I like is that she has been always a fighter. There have been so many young skaters coming and ...
KATARINA WITT For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the tw...
KATARINA BIVALD As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
KATARINA BIVALD Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think th...
KATARINA BIVALD There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.
KATARINA BIVALD For me it is good I had a tough match ... it is better to have a tough first match.
KATARINA SREBOTNIK This is the best win so far in my career. Beating the world number four gives me a lot of confidence...
KATARINA SREBOTNIK [Srebotnik, 24-years-old and ranked 49th, is seeking her tour
title this year after victories i...
KATARINA SREBOTNIK Miracles happen, right? ... That's why I want to thank the WTA trainers. I think they've done a mira...
KATARINA SREBOTNIK It's been a great week, we had some trouble with the weather, but we made it.
KATARINA SREBOTNIK Sorry I beat you, ... but I wanted to win this one really bad.
KATARINA SREBOTNIK We are born into a world that is much bigger than ourselves, one that is both enormously frightening...
KATARINA CLAIRE ENGLAND ROSS

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON

He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON

Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON

Language is the dress of thought.
JOHNSON

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo...
JOHNSON

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but...
TESSA THOMPSON

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
LEA THOMPSON When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that,...
LINDA THOMPSON Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
LINDA THOMPSON I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
LINDA THOMPSON I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum ja...
LINDA THOMPSON Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he lov...
LINDA THOMPSON As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.
LINDA THOMPSON I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, fa...
LINDA THOMPSON We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that...
LINDA THOMPSON People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace...
LINDA THOMPSON Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
LINDA THOMPSON

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a l...
KATE THOMPSON

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of...
KATE THOMPSON

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t...
KATE THOMPSON

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good ...
KATE THOMPSON

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
KATE THOMPSON

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w...
KATE THOMPSON

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philos...
KATE THOMPSON

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are s...
KATE THOMPSON

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolte...
KATE THOMPSON

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at En...
KATE THOMPSON

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at...
KATE THOMPSON

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he ...
KATE THOMPSON

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
KATE THOMPSON

I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in...
KATE THOMPSON

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give...
KATE THOMPSON

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. Th...
KATE THOMPSON

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very int...
KATE THOMPSON When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Citi...
CLIVE THOMPSON I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of br...
SCOTT THOMPSON I will probably hear more in the next day or so. His last tests showed an improvement and he has inc...
ALAN THOMPSON This job is well-suited for people who want to work hard. Some of the people who work here just love...
ALAN THOMPSON I'm taking video evidence of a number of incidents over the last two years which happened at the Oly...
ALAN THOMPSON (We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at ...
ALAN THOMPSON Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for ...
ALAN THOMPSON Congratulations on holding the line this year, ... We appreciate the efforts your department has had...
ALAN THOMPSON I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.
ALAN THOMPSON I think some of the guys prepared poorly,
ALAN THOMPSON Had he been in a different era, he would have been the one, and this time he has been able to stand ...
ALAN THOMPSON And they have got an ability to coach and an ability to swim. Even in the old days - whatever they w...
ALAN THOMPSON In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletic...
DALEY THOMPSON We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
DALEY THOMPSON But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
DALEY THOMPSON Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be th...
DALEY THOMPSON I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after...
DALEY THOMPSON Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to cat...
DALEY THOMPSON When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
DALEY THOMPSON Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power ...
DALEY THOMPSON I am only about winning and getting better.
DALEY THOMPSON I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
DALEY THOMPSON Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my care...
DALEY THOMPSON Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything...
DALEY THOMPSON Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
DALEY THOMPSON If you're not in it you can't win it.
DALEY THOMPSON We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don'...
DALEY THOMPSON People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really w...
DALEY THOMPSON I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you ...
DALEY THOMPSON Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon r...
DALEY THOMPSON Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't affo...
DALEY THOMPSON I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
DALEY THOMPSON I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur...
DALEY THOMPSON I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit sla...
DALEY THOMPSON Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to im...
DALEY THOMPSON If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - a...
DALEY THOMPSON Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
DALEY THOMPSON

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now ...
LEA THOMPSON For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. THOMPSON

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again...
CRAIG THOMPSON When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems ver...
SADA THOMPSON I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men.
AARON THOMPSON Defense is key, it comes first.
AARON THOMPSON It's the right thing to do. We're doing what any responsible institution would do.
AARON THOMPSON It's safe to say the institutions won't be up and running for a while. They'll be here for at least ...
AARON THOMPSON It's just interaction with your customer, if he's buying you a drink, that should be OK, and you kno...
AARON THOMPSON [To meet that need, said Aaron Thompson of the Orange County Red Cross, the school board has turned ...
AARON THOMPSON The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a c...
TESSA THOMPSON I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beau...
SOPHIE THOMPSON Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON We have become a little Main Street. These shops are out there every single Saturday selling mostly ...
ALLEN THOMPSON This community has been outstanding. There are a lot of differences of opinion in this community, bu...
ALLEN THOMPSON We've become the place where people come to meet. Because we are in the center of town, people will ...
ALLEN THOMPSON It has been very, very exciting. It has really grown.
ALLEN THOMPSON

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
EMMA THOMPSON

That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.

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