"Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played."
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"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."
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"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins."
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"I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running."
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"That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature."
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"Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern."
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"I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures."
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"Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play."
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
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"He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world"
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"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."
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"At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates."
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"I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special"
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"Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it."
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"A winner never whines."
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"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
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"The hardest victory is the victory over self."
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"Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations."
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"Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing."
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"My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day."
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