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"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL."

"Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common."

"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."

"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."

"In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement."
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"Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?"


"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."


"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."


"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."


"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."


"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them."
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