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"Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order."
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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."
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"For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path."
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"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
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"There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent."
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"If you're not scared every day, you're not pushing hard enough."
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"Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!"
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"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
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"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."
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"Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me."
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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."
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"Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out."
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"Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order."
Challenge
"If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win."
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"It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it."
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"They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for."
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"As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934."
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