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"All I had was natural ability."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."
Courage
"A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance."
Chance
"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."
Devil
"A full mind is an empty bat."
Mind
"All I had was natural ability."
Ability
"Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day."
Sports
"I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do."
Care
"Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil."
Devil
"It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind."
Honor
"The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race."
History
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