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"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well."
"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."
"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body."
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."
"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court."
"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."
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"It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go."
"When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves."
"There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff."
"So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer."
"For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point."
"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective."
"I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet."
"When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs."
"The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared."
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