Bob Richards
Bob Richards
Robert Eugene "Bob" Richards, nicknamed the "Vaulting Vicar" or the "Pole Vaulting Parson" in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three US Olympic Teams in two events. He competed in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and as a decathlete in 1956. He is the only male two-time Olympic gold medal winner in the pole vault, thus also the only man to defend his Olympic title. He also won a bronze medal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth20 February 1926
CountryUnited States of America
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Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.
People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.
I was quite enjoying the time, frankly. I was traveling, working around the house, golfing and helping my daughters.
If we don't do that enough, then we're an oldies station all of a sudden.
She dove as well as she's been diving all year, but the competition was definitely the toughest she's seen, and that's how it should be. I was just very pleased with how well she did.
The person who's writing and performing those songs wants to get to know the fans even more. Find out how close that song is to their real life, what it means to them. The earlier in the process that we can start connecting those artists with fans, the better.
We will be pretty busy here for a while building a new facility and just learning about the community and the Toyota and Mazda lines,
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
We are excited about the opportunity and look forward to serving all the people in Orangeburg and Orangeburg County with great service and a great automobile, ... We like it (Orangeburg) because it is not too far from Augusta. We enjoy doing business in South Carolina.
The audience responds and you can see it start. The next step is trying to figure out another way to get (an act) into town.
It was a real culture shock. It was a very fast-paced, demanding fishbowl.
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.
If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.