"Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture."
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"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world."
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"I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian."
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"There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher."
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"Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run."
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"The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life."
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"Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?"
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"Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins."
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"Learn what you are and be such."
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"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
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"I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up."
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"Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist."
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"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
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"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
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"The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second."
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"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."
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"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."
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"You can't teach court savvy"
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"In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body."
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