Personal Best Quotes - Page 2

• It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

  Tom Daley

  Mean, Champion

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• I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

  Camille Duvall

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  Camille Duvall, Nancy Crowell (1992). “Camille Duvall's Instructional Guide to Water Skiing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Guy, Useless, Want

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Jealous, Careers

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• I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

  Asafa Powell

  Giving, Lines, Want

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• It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

  Jade Edmistone

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

  Dan O'Brien

  Shapes, Limits, Pushing

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• Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Simple, Games

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