"I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat."

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"I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat."

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"A lazy person will never grow wealthy."

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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"

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"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest."

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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."

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"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

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"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."

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"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."

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"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

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"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."

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"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."

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"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

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"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

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"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

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"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

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