"I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that."
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"We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape."
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"In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together."
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"The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play."
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"I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem."
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"For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem."
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"I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space."
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"In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players."
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"My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age."
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"Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us."
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"But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage."
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