"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
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"If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail."
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"If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas."
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"Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind."
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"Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race."
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"Doing your best is more important than being the best."
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"He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action."
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"I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go."
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"If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it."
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"Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make."
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"A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly."
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"A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game."
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"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."
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"I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'"
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"I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'"
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"The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best."
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"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."
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"A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox."
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"I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect."
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"I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection."
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