Clara Hughes Quotes

• With athletes, it’s never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

  Clara Hughes

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• What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I’ve proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven’t been listening to my heart in the last little while.

  Clara Hughes

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  Tags in Heart, Passion, Succeed

• The struggle I went through has value.

  Clara Hughes

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• The only reason I’ve shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

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  Tags in Depression, Reason

• My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

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  Tags in Regular

• If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that’s what this Olympic medal represents.

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  Tags in Yourself, Anything

• I’ve learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I’ve been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it’s been.

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• I’ve had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I’ve raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don’t know if I love it enough any more.

  Clara Hughes

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  Tags in Better, Thought, Nothing

• I’m trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we’re riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

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  Tags in Winning, Trying, Championship

• I’ll skate on concrete if I have to. I’m not worried about how fast the ice is. I’m worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

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• I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

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• I want people to be inspired that I’ve always strived for excellence and I’ve always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I’ve allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

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• I still can’t believe I won the Olympics. That’s what I feel right now – completely alive as a human being. It’s a really beautiful moment.

  Clara Hughes

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  Tags in Beautiful, Believe, Moment

• I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.

  Clara Hughes

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  Tags in Heart, Working

• I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that’s what I’m meant to do.

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  Tags in Step, Meant, Feel

• I have this thing I say to myself that ‘tomorrow can be better.’ And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

  Clara Hughes

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  Tags in Myself, Remember, Better

• I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn’t see the signs in myself. I couldn’t ask for help because I didn’t know I needed help.

  Clara Hughes

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  Tags in Myself, Depression

• I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

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  Tags in Find, Limits

• I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

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  Tags in Kind, Like

• For 20 years I’ve had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe… first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

  Clara Hughes

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  Tags in Today, Around, Representing

Clara Hughes (20)

Birth:	27th September, 1972
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Cyclist, Skater

About

Clara Hughes was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, who has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics. She was inspired to begin skating after witnessing Gaétan Boucher at the 1988 Winter Olympics. She is also the only Canadian to have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. She was the first Canadian woman to win a medal in road cycling at the Olympics, winning two in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In 2006 she received the International Olympic Committee's Sport and Community Trophy.

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