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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes."
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
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"Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures."
"You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life."
"People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans."
"Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to."
"That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition."
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