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Eric Heiden

"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."

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"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."

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"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."

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"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."

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"Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do."

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"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."

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"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."

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"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

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"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."

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"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."

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"We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety."
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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
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"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."
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