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"I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them."

"The game itself is bigger than the winning."

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."

"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."

"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."

"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."

"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."
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"I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt."

"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."

"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."

"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both."

"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."

"A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him."

"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos."
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