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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
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"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well."

"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."

"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body."

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."

"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court."

"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."
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"It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission."

"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."

"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."

"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."

"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."

"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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