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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 have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them."

"The game itself is bigger than the winning."

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."

"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."

"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."

"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."

"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."
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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."


"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."


"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."


"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."


"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."


"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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