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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."

"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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"I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training."

"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether."

"Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them."
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