“Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, "Where will we park?!"”

— Marcus Brigstocke

Live At The Apollo (2006)

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comedian 1973

John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States

Travis McGee series, (1966)

“We are witnessing history. This is the most dominant athlete on planet earth today.”

Roger Federer (1981) Swiss tennis player

Jim Courier, former world No.1, while commentating on Australia's Channel Seven in 2007 http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/25/eng20070125_344854.html

“There is a park that is known
4 the face it attracts
colorful people whose hair
On 1 side is swept back
The smile on their faces
It speaks of profound inner peace
Ask where they're going
They'll tell U nowhere
They've taken a lifetime lease
On Paisley Park.”

Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor

Paisley Park
Song lyrics, Around the World in a Day (1985)

“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

Vol. I; CCCXXXIV
Lacon (1820)

“There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.”

George Borrow book Lavengro

Preface
Lavengro (1851)

“I see you don't understand, and I must explain it to you. Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city — a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.'
'But what has become of them all?' asked the Mole.
'Who can tell?' said the Badger. 'People come — they stay for a while, they flourish, they build — and they go. It is their way. But we remain. There were badgers here, I've been told, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4

“What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other — where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Interview for French TV (1998)

“I made a very historic decision. Every month, we will give cash to our athletes for their lifetime if they get medals in the Olympic games.”

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (1963) Mongolian politician

Source: "Mongolian President Talks Corruption And Human Rights" in The Harvard Crimson https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/9/24/mongolian-president-institute-politics/ (24 September 2012)

“You must have form — performance. The thing itself is indescribable, but it is felt like athletic form.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Originally delivered at a poetry reading at Princeton University (26 October 1937), published in Collected Poems, Prose & Plays (1995)
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Context: When I see young men doing so wonderfully well in athletics, I don’t feel angry at them. I feel jealous of them. I wish that some of my boys in writing would do the same thing. … You must have form — performance. The thing itself is indescribable, but it is felt like athletic form. To have form, feel form in sports — and by analogy feel form in verse. One works and waits for form in both. As I said, the person who spends his time criticizing the play around him will never write poetry. He will write criticism — for the New Republic.

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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