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"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."
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"You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play."
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."
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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash."
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"When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win."
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"The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons."
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"True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!"
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"Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands."
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"My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me."
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"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."
Attitude
"I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student."
Science
"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."
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"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."
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"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."
Design
"The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad."
Excitement
"I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote."
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"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."
Family
"We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point."
Preparation
"The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact."
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