The door banged open and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. "It's not what you think. " She said. "It was just - oh OK, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now WHAT?
If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.