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"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
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"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
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"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."
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"No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink."
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"Winning tastes good."
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"Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum."
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"Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning."
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"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."
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"We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title."
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"What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough."
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"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
Attention
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance
"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books
"Writing is a solitary occupation."
Writing
"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."
Life
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
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