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"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."
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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."

"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."
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"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."


"During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me."


"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
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