Jonathan Brownlee quote: "The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up."

During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

On the night before a triathlon, I normally eat something simple like a pizza. You know where you st...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I'm a big gamer, so I love my PlayStation to switch off from triathlon.
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great ...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was ...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

The RIM-NTP dispute has become a game of chicken. It's also almost a given that NTP will mightily co...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

AT&T is absolutely on the right track.
BROWNLEE THOMAS

This is clearly an e-commerce strategy. What AltaVista and other portals want to do is attract users...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

Everyone is looking at the U.S. market. U.S. firms like to buy American.
BROWNLEE THOMAS

They'll need a really strong advertiser base. There are people who will pay [a monthly fee] not to b...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

We've already started to put up the fence around the site.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We have a lot of different types of engineering activities that we're trying to place people in. Wha...
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We weren't expecting that to happen so quickly. We were very happy with the decision.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We anticipate that the state will be able to continue to work through this legal process and that th...
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We hope to close on the property this spring and shortly after that begin our construction.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,
DONALD BROWNLEE

We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of th...
DON BROWNLEE

Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust gra...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We're approaching the end of a fantastic voyage. This is the farthest anything from Earth has travel...
DONALD BROWNLEE

So far, as far as we know Wild 2 is a unique object.
DONALD BROWNLEE

It's fascinating that they're so different.
DONALD BROWNLEE

Comets do blow up unexpectedly,
DONALD BROWNLEE

What was the chance someone would put a g-switch in backward and not be discovered, ... It has got t...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We're in excellent shape. We've done almost everything we have to do in the entire mission...only th...
DONALD BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system.
DON BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. Personally, I feel a strong attachm...
DON BROWNLEE

We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to...
DON BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. All of the atoms in our bodies - th...
DON BROWNLEE

What we want to know is how organic molecules actually form in comets and whether they helped delive...
DON BROWNLEE

Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

It's not much, but still it's so much that we're almost overwhelmed. The first grain we worked on, w...
DONALD BROWNLEE

This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime o...
DON BROWNLEE

We'll be able to say some things almost instantly. One of the big questions is do comets contain min...
DON BROWNLEE

We saw many, many, many comet particles that were big enough to see with the naked eye.
DONALD BROWNLEE

When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

The prediction was that we would get a dozen particles larger than human hair size and one particle ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

I want to emphasize that what happened here at Fort Stewart is not just a Fort Stewart issue, ... It...
LES BROWNLEE

We?re using this comet as a library that picked up records and stored them far from the sun at very ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We are approaching the end of a quite fantastic voyage.
DON BROWNLEE

In the coldest part of the solar system, we have found samples that formed at extremely high tempera...
DONALD BROWNLEE

Helen Clark must explain why it is acceptable for a minister who has admitted 'cutting corners' on r...
GERRY BROWNLEE

We believe materials coming out of comets now is the same material that went into comets 4.5 billion...
DON BROWNLEE

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form und...
DON BROWNLEE

In the coldest part of the solar system, we've found samples that have formed at extremely high temp...
DONALD BROWNLEE

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into...
DONALD BROWNLEE

The community is real jazzed about it. People all over the world, using all kinds of fantastic instr...
DONALD BROWNLEE

This was our first view of the comet dust. We are the first people in the history of the planet to s...
DONALD BROWNLEE

For all the ideas and theories that people might have, we have some real ground truth.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is rea...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to mysel...
SARAH BROWNLEE

When they formed, they were either red-hot or white-hot and we found them in the Siberia of the sola...
DONALD BROWNLEE

About 10 per cent of this comet is made of organic materials. We don't know exactly what they all ar...
DON BROWNLEE

You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen.
DON BROWNLEE

We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.
DON BROWNLEE

We are collecting the actual building blocks the solar system was formed from 4.5 billion years ago....
DON BROWNLEE

We're seeing a variety of things that we know absolutely come from a comet.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We visited a comet, grabbed a piece of it, and landed here this morning. It was a real thrill.
DON BROWNLEE

We're confident that the things coming out [of Comet Wild 2] are the same as those that went in. We ...
DON BROWNLEE

We were stunned when we got to the comet and saw incredible features - steep cliffs, overhanging cli...
DON BROWNLEE

Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain mine...
DONALD BROWNLEE

It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We opened the capsule yesterday and it's just full of comet dust.
DONALD BROWNLEE

This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.
DON BROWNLEE

The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best prese...
DON BROWNLEE

We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally...
DON BROWNLEE

In recent decades, spacecraft have passed fairly close to comets and provided us with excellent data...
DON BROWNLEE

We have successfully collected samples from the comet and we're bringing them home for analysis in l...
DON BROWNLEE

Each year we have 30 to 40,000 tons of primitive material from comets and asteroids that lands on Ea...
DON BROWNLEE

Our mission is called Stardust, in part because we believe some of the particles in the comet will, ...
DON BROWNLEE

We are nearing the end of quite a fantastic voyage.
DON BROWNLEE

There have been better (seasons), definitely. I don't know what to attribute it to. I don't know if ...
ERIC BROWNLEE

We've had a few good years in a row. Maybe it's time for the players.
ERIC BROWNLEE

In college, it was pretty consistent there, too.
ERIC BROWNLEE

I'm usually looking down, into a microscope.
DON BROWNLEE

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

We saw incredible features -- steep cliffs, overhanging cliffs, spires and many other things we had ...
DON BROWNLEE

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

They're going to be part of the political landscape for some time to come.
GERRY BROWNLEE

For two ministers who are taking different positions to try to hide that difference by climbing in b...
GERRY BROWNLEE

While he may wish to describe it as a mistake, falsification of documents is very clearly a serious ...
GERRY BROWNLEE

I will be writing to the State Services Commission in an effort to get an explanation about how a su...
GERRY BROWNLEE

We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

It has come as a big shock to everyone and it is hard to imagine the club without Scott around.
IAN BROWNLEE

In the fifth the home side were the much more focused of the two and, with a noisy crowd cheering th...
IAN BROWNLEE

Anyone who crawls up from the gutter and makes something of themselves, despite the odds and despite...
SARAH BROWNLEE

Those in medical status, they should be in the improved level of billets, those that are air conditi...
LES BROWNLEE

It is important that these plans be available for implementation when the security conditions and th...
LES BROWNLEE

Public safety remains our principal interest. The Army has demonstrated since 1990 that it can safel...
LES BROWNLEE

If you look at the operational environment in which we're now operating and the one we think we'll b...
LES BROWNLEE

We're going to move to make those improvements.
LES BROWNLEE

To many places around the world, the face of the United States is the face of the American soldier.
LES BROWNLEE

That was real big. This is probably the first time throughout the whole year where he's been in foul...
JUSTIN BROWNLEE

They were either red-hot or white-hot grains, and yet we collected them in a comet, the Siberia of t...
DR. DON BROWNLEE

I just can't believe this actually is a piece of a comet, but it is.
DR. DON BROWNLEE

It's really caught the public's attention, and there's a lot of concern for safety. As more and more...
SEN KARIN BROWNLEE

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa...
JONATHAN HICKMAN

I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sur...
JONATHAN KRISEL

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie...
JONATHAN COE

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
JONATHAN ROSS

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
JONATHAN ANDERSON

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo...
JONATHAN TUCKER

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend an...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwe...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor...
JONATHAN EVISON

One person's car is another person's scenery.
JONATHAN IVE

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played t...
JONATHAN FRID

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ...
JONATHAN SACKS

When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers...
JONATHAN MABERRY

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I...
JONATHAN TOEWS

I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started...
JONATHAN TOEWS

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
JONATHAN LETHEM

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U...
JONATHAN SACKS

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals ...
JONATHAN SACKS

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi...
JONATHAN KOZOL

I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hur...
JONATHAN VILMA

The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief momen...
JONATHAN GALASSI

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
JONATHAN ANDERSON

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real...
JONATHAN HAIDT

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa...
JONATHAN CARROLL

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about...
JONATHAN SACKS

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL

Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL

May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD

The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD

Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD

Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD

Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch...
JONATHAN STROUD

Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...
JONATHAN STROUD

I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our...
JONATHAN STROUD

Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ...
JONATHAN STROUD

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...
JONATHAN STROUD

Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ...
JONATHAN STROUD

The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up.

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The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up.

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