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Katie Taylor

Irish professional boxer; Olympic champion 2012

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The reason I've been able to keep going for so long is because of how much I love my sport. I still haven't lost that drive. I'm still as passionate about my sport today as I was when I first laced up a pair of boxing gloves. I love preparing for battle and getting into that mindset you must reach when you're putting your body through torture in training camp.

RTÉ, 7 July 2025 source ↗

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Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
When I decided to sell my company, I already had enough. I live simply. I don’t own a house, a car, or even a TV. The less I own, the happier I am. The lack of stuff gives me the priceless freedom to live anywhere anytime. So I didn’t need or even want the money from the sale of the company. I just wanted to make sure I had enough for a simple comfortable life. The rest should go to music education, since that’s what made such a difference in my life.
Recorded Essay on sive.rs, Derek Sivers, 4 December 2009 source ↗
Brian Chesky Co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb
We need to have mentors. I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning. Michael Seibel and other people. And the more successful I got, the more leaders I started seeking out, whether it was investors, or Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook, or I got the opportunity to spend time with Warren Buffett and he became a close mentor of mine.
Recorded Fortune interview, 27 March 2017 source ↗
Charlie Munger Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
They win the respect, the deserved trust, of the people they deal with, and there is huge pleasure in life to be obtained from getting deserved trust. And so the way to get it is to deliver what you’d want to buy if the circumstances were reversed.
Recorded USC Gould School of Law commencement, 2007, Speakola, 2007 source ↗
Roger Federer Swiss professional tennis player, 1998–2022
Of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, the greatest, without a doubt, has been the people I've met along the way: my friends, my competitors, and most of all the fans who give the sport its life.
Recorded Open letter, 'To my tennis family and beyond', Reuters, 15 September 2022 source ↗

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