Carl Lewis Quotes

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• If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

  Carl Lewis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

  Carl Lewis

  Motivational, Athlete, Journey

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• Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

  Carl Lewis

  Life, Sports, Inspire

  "BARCELONA: TRACK & FIELD; With Speed to Burn, U.S. Wins 3 Relays" by Michael Janofsky, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 1992.

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• I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Perfection

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• I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

  Carl Lewis

  Inspiration, People, Mind

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• Channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Running, Focus

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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• My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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• People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

  Carl Lewis

  People, The End Of The Day, Doe

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• My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Years, Track, Competition

  Introduction to "Very Vegetarian" by Jannequin Bennett, 2001.

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• The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

  Carl Lewis

  Courage, Challenges, Trials

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• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Teamwork, Kids

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  Carl Lewis

  Motivational, Feet, Long

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• If you go by other people's opinions or predictions,
  you'll just end up talking yourself out of something.
  If you're running down the track of life thinking that
  it's impossible to break life's records,
  those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.

  Carl Lewis

  Running, Thinking, Talking

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• Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

  Carl Lewis

  Race, Goal, Finals

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• I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Successful, Years

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• The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

  Carl Lewis

  Games, People, Political

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• Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.

  Carl Lewis

  Strong, Able

  "Lewis: My fight with arthritis". www.theguardian.com. June 19, 1999.

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• Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  Carl Lewis

  New Year, Thinking, Years

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• Some Americans just shouldnt leave the country.

  Carl Lewis

  Country

  "#Romneyshambles: 'Some Americans just shouldn't leave the country', says Carl Lewis" by Jerome Taylor, Rob Williams, www.independent.co.uk. July 27, 2012.

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• At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Track, The End Of The Day

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• You can't live your life through your children.

  Carl Lewis

  Children, Live Your Life, Your Children

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

  Carl Lewis

  Want, Chance, Intention

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• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  Carl Lewis

  Kids, Track, Want

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• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  Carl Lewis

  People, Humans, Human Beings

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• To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

  Carl Lewis

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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