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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 on Best

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  • "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

    John Wooden on Best

  • "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

    Thomas Jefferson on Best

  • "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

    Theodore Roosevelt on Best

  • "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

    e. e. cummings on Best

  • "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

    Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by Carl Lewis

  • "I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be."

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

  • "I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics."

  • "I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach."

  • "Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people."

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