Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.


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FELIX BLOCH
It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities...
FELIX BLOCH
In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the ...
FELIX BLOCH
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
FELIX BLOCH
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in ...
FELIX BLOCH
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about ...
FELIX BLOCH
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a t...
FELIX BLOCH
Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by ...
FELIX BLOCH
Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast ...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time c...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the av...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather d...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I like to challenge myself.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through y...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
They call me Fearless Felix.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful pla...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the wor...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
I'm retired from the daredevil business.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...
FELIX ADLER
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today...
FELIX ADLER
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of m...
FELIX ADLER
Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public ass...
FELIX ADLER
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...
FELIX ADLER
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
FELIX ADLER
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns ther...
FELIX ADLER
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
FELIX ADLER