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"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
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"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel


"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty


"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents


"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents


"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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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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"Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin."
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"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."
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"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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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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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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