Note to Self:

Jul 13, 2009 14:12

I remember once reading a magazine interview with American swimmer Donna de Varona, winner of twp gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The reporter pointed out that earlier in her career, she had been a good swimmer, but not a great one. Now the seventeen-year-old had just placed first in two four-hundred-meter events. What happened? She replied, "I always used to watch the other swimmers, but then I learned to ignore them and swim my own races."

- An excerpt taken from the book, A Gift for My Children, by Jim Rogers.
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