"Sweet are the uses of adversity"
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"I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question."
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"I've never lost a game I just ran out of time."
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"The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it."
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"The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves."
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"I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance."
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"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
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"One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience."
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"I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results."
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"The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted."
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"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
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"I like comedy as a group sport."
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"I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay."
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"The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level."
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"You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
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"I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody."
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"Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance."
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"Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all."
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"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
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"The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It's like you have a little BMW - you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it's just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field."
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