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"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."
Tension
"I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor."
College
"I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand."
Fierce
"The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves."
War
"The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault."
Business
"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."
Life
"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference."
Difference
"Don't come home a failure."
Home
"Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher."
Theory
"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."
Fire
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"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."
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Personal Development
"These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after."
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Personal Development
"Tension means you want to be something else that you are not."
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Personal Development
"Her suspense was terrible."
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Personal Development
"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."
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Personal Development
"He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous."
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Personal Development
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