Bonnie Blair Quotes

• Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

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  Dream, Distance, Accomplishment

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• Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.

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  Dream, Dedication, Keys

  Bonnie Blair (1996). “A Winning Edge”, p.5, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

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  Sports, Goal, Physical Attraction

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• It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

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  Memories, Done, Knows

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• There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

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  Men, Liberty, Quarters

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• Winning doesn't always mean being first.

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  Mean, Winning, Firsts

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• I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.

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  Falling In Love, Ice, Wind

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• Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

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  World, Process, Learning Process

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• A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

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  Sports, Thinking, People

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• I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

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  Personal Best, Satisfied, Can Do

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• I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

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  Sports, Gun, Missing

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• The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

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  Sports, Work, Taken

  Bonnie Blair, Greg Brown (1996). “A Winning Edge”, Taylor Trade Pub

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• It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

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  Leadership, Sports, Lying

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• There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

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  Perfect, Community, Storm

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• You have to have the right mind-set.

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  Mind, Mind Set

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• Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

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  Long, Track, Competition

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• Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport

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  Sports, Dream, Accomplish

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• I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

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  Olympics, Remember

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• I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

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  Short Love, Games, Long

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• I don't fear anything.

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• My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

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  Sports, Parent, Age

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