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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen…
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen…
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Athletics is a luxury.
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,…
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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast,…
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Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up…
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The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that.…
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The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally…
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Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,…
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I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
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Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the…
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The sea is not a bargain basement.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The…
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Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
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People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my…
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