"I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."
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"It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
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"The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success."
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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
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"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day."
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"I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey."
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"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."
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"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you."
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"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
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"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
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"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."
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"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games."
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"Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half."
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"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
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"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."
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"But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more."
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."
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