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"When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more."
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"If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger."

"You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!"

"Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish."

"I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe."

"You see it as me going back. I see it as me staying on track."

"The determination to win is the better part of winning."

"Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up."

"If records refuse to be broken, shatter them."

"If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed."
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"The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path."

"A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up."
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