#cs

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

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anything #coach #could #except #gym

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#career #film #i #life #my life

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

Children need models rather than critics. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#critics #models #need #rather #than

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#logic #metaphysics #works

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#critics #cruise #darling #fans #i

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#aspirations #before #believed #cent #drew

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics. ↗

— William Joyce

#billy #good #math #mathematics #super