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Mary Lou Retton

"Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience."

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Donna Grant

"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

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Donna Grant

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

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Donna Grant

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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Donna Grant

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

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Donna Grant

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

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Donna Grant

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

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Donna Grant

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

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Donna Grant

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."

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Donna Grant

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

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Mary Lou Retton
"I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter."

Time

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Mary Lou Retton
"I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do."

Attitude

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Mary Lou Retton
"As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter."

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Mary Lou Retton
"That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals."

Policy

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Mary Lou Retton
"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed."

Achievement

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Mary Lou Retton
"Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support."

Athletes

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Mary Lou Retton
"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."

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Mary Lou Retton
"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

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Mary Lou Retton
"If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash."

Performance

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Mary Lou Retton
"Fragile egos are put on the line every day."

Endurance

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