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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Sports

"Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc."

Sports Fashion Suicide
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Lewis Hamilton Formula One Driver
Sports

"One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me."

Sports Team Maturity
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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Sports

"I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts."

Strong Sports Hurt
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Emerson Fittipaldi Racing Driver
Sports

"You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race."

Heart Sports Race
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Bear Bryant Football Coach
Sports

"You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly."

Sports Winning Dedication
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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Sports

"If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country."

Country Sports Education
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Bill Lee Unknown
Sports

"You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees."

Sports Team New York
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Bubba Watson Professional Golfer
Sports

"I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf."

Sports Winning Golf
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Sports

"Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic."

Running Sports Success
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Sports

"I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself off because no one of my size has ever been in this magazine [Sports Illustrated] and I need other women to know that they are just as beautiful."

Thinking Beautiful Sports
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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
Sports

"For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay."

Children School Sports
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