Quotes by Major Taylor - Page 1

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Success
Champion
Modesty
Should
Typical
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Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Men
Heart
Life Is Too Short
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
My Own
Pioneers
Trails
Walking
Had
Own
Blaze
Word
Pioneer
Therefore
Trail
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Battle
Color
Monsters
Prejudice
Against
Dreadful
Extra
Monster
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I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Success
Believe
Congratulations
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Athlete
Champion
Father
Father Time
Winning
Time Great Must
Bow
Eventually
Perennial
Wins
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Advise
Careers
Clean
Clean Living
Fair Play
Play
Practice
Professional Career
Sportsmanship
Living
Aspiring
Career
Fair
Youths
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There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Opportunity
Granted
Moral
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Confidence
Smile
Sports
Belief
Champion
Factors
Fine
Realizing
Training
Condition
Essential
However
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Success
Bicycle
Ideals
Track
Umpires
Youth
Attribute
Degree
Instilled
Large
Mine
Tracks
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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Courage
Patience
Smile
Achieve
Fortitude
Monsters
Perseverance
Prejudice
Spite
Will
Pray
Carry
Dreadful
Monster
Themselves
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Failure
Boys
Long
Maximum
Moral
Particular
Today
Boy
Appears
Center
Objective
Obtain
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An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Ability
Athlete
Champion
Clean
Obvious
Reason
Champions
Live Will Never
Reach
Reasons
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I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Confidence
Smile
Defeated
Gathering
Ovation
Winning
Best Always Doing
Noticed
Received
Rider
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Athlete
Character
Clean
Clean Living
Outstanding
Phenomenal
Principles
World Will Living
Athletes
Cardinal
Performance
Obviously
Principle
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It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Foundation
Sportsmanship
Stones
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I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Sympathy
Deep Feeling
Feelings
Knowing
Obstacles
Confront
Express
Hardly
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I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Athlete
Clean
Clean Living
Efficacy
Inspiration
Instance
Long
Long Way
Cite
Coupled
Proves
Received
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In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Friendship
Friends
Men
Class
Closest
Closest Friends
Enjoyed
Racing
Riders
White
White Man
Wish
Among
Days
Countless
Number
Thousands
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Discussing
Length
Obstacles
Best Great Done
Overcome
Experiences
Extent
Subject
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Courage
Smile
Enough
Greater
May
Morale
Physical Courage
Simple
Strict
Rules
Adhere
Attained
Carried
Word
Otherwise
Physical
Require
Seem
Sense
Surely
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Careers
Clean
Clean Living
Exertion
Good Habits
Remarkable
Stamina
Stars
Years
Period
Extended
Good Great Living
Habits
Reward
Rigorous
Strenuous
Successfully
Test
Thus
Withstand
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
Major Taylor / Cyclist
Experience
Bicycle
Champion
Giving
Impressed
Racing
Reign
Theory
Youngsters
Good Experience Always
Benefit
Champions
Discourage
Entertained
However
Longer
Youths
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