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"At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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"In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really."
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"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
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"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin."
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"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country."
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"I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest."
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"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."
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"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
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"I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition."
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"I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing."
Want
"Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that."
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"At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country."
Nation
"It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good."
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"My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in."
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"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."
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