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Most people do not know themselves. The real you is not that person you are when times are great, the real you shows when everything… — Ian Warner
On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others… — Red Holzman
It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all the people. It has been… — Unknown Author
(On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings… — Leonel Manzano
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. — Lynn Davies
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be… — Robin Cousins
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Unknown Author
Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to… — Unknown Author
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you… — Benjamin Haydon
All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. — Unknown Author
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching. — Tris Speaker
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day. — Gabe Paul
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium!… — August Weismann
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that… — Unknown Author
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go… — Gene Autry
The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers… — Unknown Author
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. — Unknown Author
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without… — Unknown Author
A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great… — Max Delbruck
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions,… — Unknown Author
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when… — Karl Pearson
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its… — Max Delbruck

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