The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
Ian Thorpe
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There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.
DAVE CURRIE It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world t...
EDDIE MCGUIRE Ian (Thorpe) is now in the top three most recognized sports stars in Japan behind Tigers Woods and D...
DAVE FLASKAS Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in sw...
MICHAEL PHELPS As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pac...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, ...
WASSILY KANDINSKY When Thorpe pulled out and he (Monk) went into those two (races), he was thrust into the limelight a...
ALAN THOMPSON These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Thorpe said they were bad swims, but for anyone else, that's a world-class performance ... Thorpe ha...
DEAN PRICE (The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned i...
NANCY B. BREWER No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the li...
LANA PARRILLA Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS [She has turned] the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle.
DAVID STEEL Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale
LUCY 'AISY The Central has turned from a weak division into baseball's strongest.
BOB CLUCK I think what Ian said has a lot of merit,
JAMES SUTHERLAND There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. ...
NED VIZZINI This has been a nightmare.
DIANNE MICHLINSKI The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.
LEE TREVINO The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.
STEVEN MAGEE Coach Mark Few has really turned that program into a powerhouse.
BRANDON COLE This has turned into practically a public outcry against this guy.
RICH KNIGHTEN He's a great athlete who has turned himself into a great quarterback.
BRAD VANNEMAN QPR has not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculation...
GIANNI PALADINI For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
BERNIE SANDERS I'm still swimming.
IAN THORPE For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw...
IAN THORPE I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become c...
IAN THORPE I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a...
IAN THORPE Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does ...
IAN THORPE I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the ...
IAN THORPE I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going...
IAN THORPE Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.
IAN THORPE Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what w...
IAN THORPE I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm ...
IAN THORPE People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and let my bod...
IAN THORPE For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done b...
IAN THORPE Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what w...
IAN THORPE I didn't think that that was going to happen, ... Maybe what I need is to get up and give more than ...
IAN THORPE It's a hot field. It's going to be a good race at the Commonwealth Games,
IAN THORPE After that, it was then that I wanted to be back and competing,
IAN THORPE Training in that cold pool of a morning really tests you, whether you really want to do it or not,
IAN THORPE It was tough but I was able to produce a pretty good performance and I'm ecstatic about the result.
IAN THORPE I have never taken so many tablets in my life as I have in the past few weeks.
IAN THORPE I'm happy to live here.
IAN THORPE My training is going exceptionally well. I'm fit and I have been for quite some time. I'm looking fo...
IAN THORPE It's a hot 100 field at the moment. It's going to be a good Commonwealth Games . . . a very, very to...
IAN THORPE She's just pulling her hair out. But really she's cool with it.
IAN THORPE I am a bit disappointed with it, but it served its purpose. There is no reason I felt pretty ordinar...
IAN THORPE I wasn't happy with it at all. I thought I would go faster than what I did last night (in the semi-f...
IAN THORPE I've have never taken so many tablets in my life as what I have in the past few weeks. I've just bee...
IAN THORPE It was difficult coming to terms with not being able to compete but in the end it was the only decis...
IAN THORPE I have struggled for the last three weeks to overcome my illness. It's very disappointing that I can...
IAN THORPE I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,
IAN THORPE I wouldn't have swum this race if I wasn't satisfied about the decision Craig had made and how he ma...
IAN THORPE I don't know if I am going to race [in the worlds]. I'd like to, but I don't want to race unless I'm...
IAN THORPE Having time away, it reignites that passion and that fire that you have. And I have that back and I'...
IAN THORPE I think I should retire after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
IAN THORPE It's getting close to being two years away, so it's close, and it's exciting already,
IAN THORPE Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack...
TOM HIDDLESTON The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
WARREN CHAPPELL The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
RAYMOND CHANDLER The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
WARREN CHAPPELL A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
ERIC HOFFER Ian had a really good summer with the (American Legion) team, and we're hoping he can take it into t...
MARIO PALIOTTO I think Afghanistan has turned into the Vietnam of my generation, only with a better homecoming.
BRANDON WEBB Dare to live the fairytale.
TRUTH DEVOUR The number of people still being touched by Jim Thorpe is phenomenal.
LYNNE DRAPER The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned...
KIMBERLY KINRADE It has turned them into worthy competitors of major PC vendors.
TIM BAJARIN I have so much hate that it has turned into love.
MARGARET CHO The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war wi...
G.K. CHESTERTON Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
HOWARD SCHULTZ When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA McCain has turned into a political whore. When he has made an alliance with extremist fanatics, he's...
BOB KUNST You can imagine scenarios at this point where the Goldilocks economy turns into a nightmare.
DAVID M. JONES I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almo...
NED VIZZINI I'll believe it when I see Thorpe in the stands watching his own races.
DEAN PRICE It actually has turned into one of our busier weekends. The banked slalom has filled the gap that wa...
GWYN HOWAT I'm saying to myself, 'This has got to be a nightmare,'
CURTIS SLIWA Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I jus...
COCO J. GINGER My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
RANDY CASTILLO She has just turned into a puddle. To end her career like this is just too much.
MARILU LAUBENTHAL Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
JERRY B. JENKINS Ian
C.E. COOK Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
JOHN LE CARRE Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
JOHN LECARRE He's a great coach. He has turned this program around since he came here. He has made it into a top ...
JEFF ROWLAND A sorta fairytale with you... with an Irish ending...
C LIONG Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA This has got to be a nightmare, ... I haven't woken up yet.
CURTIS SLIWA You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money...
WILKIE COLLINS The peach siding created a gorgeous contrast to the stucco walls and the dark-brown roof tiles—a f...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing hap...
JOE WRIGHT We felt Ian has the right mix of experience, coaching ability and ambition to take take us forward.
BRUCE ELLIOTT
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IAN THORPE Having time away, it reignites that passion and that fire that you have. And I have that back and I'...
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