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"I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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Personal Development
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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Personal Development
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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Personal Development
"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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Personal Development
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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Personal Development
"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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Personal Development
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there."
Want
"The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy."
Sports
"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."
Race
"In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency."
Life
"The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that."
Health
"Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken."
Life
"One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while."
Sports
"By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago."
Attitude
"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
Coach
"If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique."
Sports
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