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"Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier."
Sports
"Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport."
Love
"I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader."
Being
"Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali."
Being
"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."
Sports
"Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?"
Money
"I was also in love with the English language."
Love
"I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan."
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"My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down."
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"I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life."
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