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"The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words."
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"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."
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Personal Development
"Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame."
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"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
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"Heroes can be sweet."
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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
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"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."
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"Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up."
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"He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished, he died."
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"The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago."
Idolatry
"I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom."
Freedom
"Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?"
Parenting
"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."
Talk
"The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart."
Heart
"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
Reading
"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"
World
"So this is it. Match point for eternity."
Sports
"When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death."
Death
"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives."
Heroism
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