Lynn Davies Quotes

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.

I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.

I'm so happy to have done this, and now I can say I ran the New York City Marathon.

I can now check Oregon off the 'marathon in every state list.'

I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.

Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

I always want to do things in my career that would make people proud.

I wanted to be a world champion of some sorts since I got into the industry, when I was 15 years old, and I was able to do that.

I thought I would get to where I wanted to in Brazil when I was about 30, but by 22, I was already doing great.

I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.

Earned success is the key to a positive, happy life.

My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.

I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane.

I would like to be as successful as Ian Botham was, but if I'm doing anything, I'm doing it as myself.

I think my breakthrough was at the World Cup 1986.

I mean I had accomplished a goal I had set at 10 years old, I told my mom at that time that I was going to be a wrestler one day, and I was going to be champion, everyone looked at me like I was crazy.

I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the last or the first to do something.' There's nothing like setting goals and watching yourself get there, accomplishing that goal and putting your name to a part of history.

Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.

I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title.

One of my proudest moments was probably 2013 Worlds because I proved to myself that I could do things that I didn't think I could.

I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.

Actually, when I don't have a fight I'm training the hardest because I'm not worried about getting hurt.

To be a world champion from Oklahoma is something that really pushes me.

Fighting at the Olympics has been my lifelong dream, and I cannot believe I am there now.