#pet

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anymore #been #being #compete #easier

In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#am #around #athlete #because #breathe

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#appeared #attention #capitalist #classes #competition

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA. ↗

— Marion Jones

#career #compete #couple #hopefully #more

I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#after #always #am #athletes #competition

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ↗

— William Feather

#experience #fables #folk #into #nation

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#aware #check #competition #conditions #eat

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#am #athlete #because #competitive #even

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now. ↗

— Tom Felton

#big #carp #fish #got #i

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#basketball #both #choose #competing #favorite