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"If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier."
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"I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between."
Retirement

"I've enjoyed my retirement."
Retirement

"I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do."
Nothing

"I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time."
Time

"I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."
Victory

"I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries."
Respect

"For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."
Experience

"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
Birds

"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
Optimism

"If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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