Athletics Competitor

🇯🇵Haruki Murakami

Literature

Surrealism

b. 1949

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one."

🇺🇸Caitlyn Jenner

Sports

b. 1949

"I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans."

🇺🇸Nicholas Sparks

Literature

b. 1965

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."

🇺🇸Joseph Campbell

Literature

1904–1987

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."

🇺🇸Deion Sanders

Psychology

b. 1967

"You got a resident corner here... Shut-down corner. Now it's gotta be one or the other. If you ain't gotta tackle, you'd better cover. If you ain't gotta cover, you'd better tackle. THEY AIN'T DOIN' NOTHING"

🇺🇸Alan Cranston

Politics

1914–2000

"understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' – Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press"

Emil Zátopek

Sports

1922–2000

"Are you running out of breath? Go faster!"

🇺🇸Steve Prefontaine

Sports

1951–1975

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

🇺🇸Dick Gregory

Entertainment

1932–2017

"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."

🇺🇸Bruce Bennett

Sports

1906–2007

"Herman Brix, 100, Athlete and a ‘Cultured’ Tarzan, Dies" by Douglas Martin, in The New York Times"

🇦🇺Michelle Jenneke

Sports

b. 1993

"My best advice would be to just have fun and enjoy yourself. If you love what you do it doesn't seem like hard work, just passion. Yeah you have to train hard but you're always going to have fun along the way."

🇰🇪Eliud Kipchoge

Sports

b. 1984

"I have tried, I am the first man to run under two hours to inspire many people, to tell people no human is limited."

Merlene Ottey

Sports

b. 1960

"We will see how it goes. I still enjoy it."

🇬🇧Roger Bannister

Medicine

1929–2018

"We run, not only because we think it is doing us good, but … because it helps us to do other things better."

🇺🇸Bill Rodgers

Sports

b. 1947

"No one who works 40 hours a week will beat me in a marathon."