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"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures."
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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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"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."

"I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means."

"Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time."

"And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones."

"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out."

"Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self."
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