Latest Kelly Clark Quotes from Interviews

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• Right before they named the (2014) team, I stepped back and I allowed myself to realize what I had accomplished. I got overwhelmed and the tears came pretty quickly. It's an honor to represent my country again and to represent my sport to the world and to hold it down for all those 30-year old athletes out there.

  Kelly Clark

  Sports, Country, Team

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I never planned to be at the height of my career when I was 30 years old and going to my fourth Olympics. I watched the 1998 Olympics when I was 14 years old. That's what I wanted to do with my life. I thought I might have a shot at three Olympics max. This is way beyond the parameters of what I set out to do.

  Kelly Clark

  Years, Careers, Max

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• If there ever is a need or if anyone's hurting, I'm the person they come to because they know what they're going to get. They know I'll pray for them. They know I'll encourage them. It's amazing that I get to be there for people. I'm sure I'll hear later on how God was working in it all, but for me, it's really about loving people well.

  Kelly Clark

  Hurt, People, Needs

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• As I've been open with my faith, there's a consistency that almost disarms people. They know what they're going to get when they see me. They know what they're going to get when they talk to me.

  Kelly Clark

  People, Consistency, Talk To Me

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• I feel like there is great purpose in a lot of my endeavors. I've seen God in the middle of them. I've seen Him be faithful in those things.

  Kelly Clark

  Faithful, Purpose, Middle

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• I strongly believe in that saying, "People don't care what you know until they know that you care." That's been my goal and objective - to love people well. That's something I can bring to this community.

  Kelly Clark

  Believe, People, Goal

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• Instead of thinking about building up my image or building up my brand or building up my career, I've turned it and taken the approach of focusing on what I can give instead of what I can get. It's been a very enjoyable process for me. That's more of a heart position that I've taken. It's been one of the greatest things I've ever done.

  Kelly Clark

  Taken, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?

  Kelly Clark

  Attitude, Giving, Community

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I'm more comfortable with my beliefs and with who I am. I honestly don't think about it that much. I just try to live my life and I try to love people. I try to love God well and I try to love people well. Those are my main objectives.

  Kelly Clark

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I've always lived a life where what you see if what you get. I've never wanted to live two different lifestyles. The initial transition for me was perhaps the most difficult. It wasn't easy communicating what I believed and what my values were. Establishing that as a young adult was interesting. I was 20 years old when I got saved.

  Kelly Clark

  Years, Two, Interesting

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• We're not meant to do it on our own. We're meant to do life with God and with each other. I've been fortunate to have friends that are willing to invest in me even on the days when I'm not able to invest back into them. I'm thankful for people that have that selfless attitude and have helped me become a successful person and a successful athlete.

  Kelly Clark

  Attitude, Athlete, Successful

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I think I've done a pretty good job of not compartmentalizing my life. I take my core values and I live them out at home like I would in my snowboarding like I would at church with my friends.

  Kelly Clark

  Jobs, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I'm willing to explore what that's supposed to look like. I want to be intentional. I want it to show up in my life every day. I really try to live out my values and be consistent. Another things that has helped has been staying connected to a community of believers. It's important to be around others that share your beliefs and share your values and people that can encourage you.

  Kelly Clark

  People, Community, Important

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I don't look to my situation to determine what choices I make. I've developed a good sense of values and beliefs. That's my reality. No matter where I am, God is still good. No matter where I am, nothing is impossible. It's those sort of principles that really anchor me.

  Kelly Clark

  Reality, Anchors, Choices

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• People ask a lot about how I can be a believer in a culture that perhaps is counter cultural to what you believe in. I've come to the conclusion that I'm able to be in this culture and in this industry and fruitful because I don't look to my circumstances to determine what I believe to be true about God.

  Kelly Clark

  Believe, People, Culture

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• It's definitely got to be a daily thing. There's no formula to walking with God. There's no formula to having success as an athlete. It's about relationships and it's a daily thing. You've got to revisit things and you've got to be willing to work on things all the time.

  Kelly Clark

  Athlete, Walking With God, Formulas

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.

  Kelly Clark

  Sports, Growing Up, Creativity

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• So after those Games, I continued to compete that season and the year after that. I really had the goal of being intentional. I didn't want to do big tricks because it was an X Games final or an Olympics final. I wanted to call my own shots. I started to do that and I started to have more fun than I ever knew I could have.

  Kelly Clark

  Fun, Years, Games

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.

  Kelly Clark

  Teammate, Olympics, Strange

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• The foundational skills of snowboarding are what pay off in the long run. That's something I've been able to build over time and that's benefited me a lot. With my age and looking at my career, perhaps I'm more comfortable in my own skin than I've ever been.

  Kelly Clark

  Running, Snowboarding, Skills

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

  Kelly Clark

  Growing Up, People, Age

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

  Kelly Clark

  Successful, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• It's funny. I competed against a 13-year old girl at the Winter X Games. I looked down at her birth date and it said 2000. I was like, "Huh, I wonder if she even knows what Y2K is?" But I guess I've just been able to build a foundation.

  Kelly Clark

  Girl, Winter, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• I thought being a Christian was about following rules and going to church and being good all the time, but this girl helped me understand that it's about having a relationship with God. That was where things shifted for me.

  Kelly Clark

  Girl, Christian, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• 2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me and that's how I knew myself. That's where I got a lot of my self worth. That began to shift and I started to understand that I didn't get my worth from people or from the things that I did. It was from Christ. If I hadn't had that shift in my life, I think my world would have come crumbling down.

  Kelly Clark

  Self Worth, Thinking, Snowboarding

  Source: www.beliefnet.com