"I think it's better to attempt something and……" — Ian Thorpe
"I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there."
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30 Quotes by Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe has 30 quotes on this site.
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When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done…
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There is water in every lane, so it is OK.
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I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do…
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People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let…
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I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof…
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For…
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Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.
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The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't…
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does…
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This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you…
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Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and…
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This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted…
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More Attempt Quotes
This quote is filed under Attempt Quotes,
one of 1,586 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
— Kevin Bacon
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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