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"Athletics is a luxury."
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"I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games."
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"I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all."
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"I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12."
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"The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing."
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"Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it."
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"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."
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"Football said,"Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin"."
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"My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years."
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"On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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"My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work."
Work
"I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy."
People
"The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized."
Sports
"I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello."
Music
"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training."
Car
"Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science."
Science
"The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion."
Sports
"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin."
Family
"Athletics is a luxury."
Sports
"I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!"
Life
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