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Motivation Quote by Karrie Webb

"I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends"

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There is nothing glamorous about “six to eight weeks” when it’s framed as “now.” Karrie Webb’s line punctures the tidy myth of the jet-setting athlete by making time the real antagonist: not a rival, not an injury, but the shrinking window in which a life back home is still lived with you in it. The specificity does the heavy lifting. “Six to eight weeks” sounds like a contract clause or a tour schedule, the language of logistics intruding on the language of belonging. It’s a quietly devastating way to measure distance.

The intent is simple and strategic: to humanize a career that, from the outside, reads as victory laps and frequent-flyer perks. Webb isn’t asking for pity; she’s naming the trade-off. For an Australian star whose professional base is often elsewhere, “now” suggests a later-career recalibration, a recognition that success has a geography and it charges rent. The subtext is that the “home” audience gets her in fragments. National pride is real, but it’s also intermittent.

“Family and friends” lands as a double anchor: family implies obligation and roots; friends implies continuity, the people who knew you before trophies. The repetition of “really miss” refuses the stoic sports-script of sacrifice. It’s a small sentence with a big cultural tell: even at the top of the leaderboard, the cost of global mobility is intimacy, and the bill comes due in weeks.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Webb, Karrie. (2026, January 16). I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-only-get-to-spend-about-six-to-eight-weeks-in-84137/

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Webb, Karrie. "I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-only-get-to-spend-about-six-to-eight-weeks-in-84137/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-only-get-to-spend-about-six-to-eight-weeks-in-84137/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Karrie Webb

Karrie Webb (born December 21, 1974) is a Athlete from Australia.

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