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"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."
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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability."
"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."
"My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m."
"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way."
"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."
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