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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."
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"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."

"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game."

"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me."

"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first."

"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."
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