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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."

"I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy."
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"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."

"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
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