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"It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent."
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"You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast."

"Only after you have qualified yourself, you should then say that God will prosper your labor."

"Even if what you're preparing for does not happen, your efforts aren't for naught. With preparation comes knowledge of each situation, as well as the confidence to handle every new encounter with more grace and ease than the time before."

"You need to get all the information that is related to the work that the Lord has called you to do."

"Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die."

"We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations."

"It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation."

"A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen."

"Take it one step at a time-inarguably wise advice. And yet we all take a running leap, hoping the wind will catch us on its wings and lift us clear to the top of the beanstalk. Those few Jacks who have reached new heights in this manner inevitably wish they had taken more time to prepare for the overbearing giant who greeted them."

"You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it."
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"Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm."

"I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them."

"Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen."

"So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying."

"So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time."

"I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever."

"I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts."
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