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"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."
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"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."
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"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."
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"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
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"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."
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"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."
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"Football said,"Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin"."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
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"Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin."
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"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something."
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"I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act."
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"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."
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"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
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"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
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"Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation."
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"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
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"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
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