"I had a great interest in sports. I……" — George J. Mitchell
"I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not."
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28 Quotes by George J. Mitchell
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My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents.…
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Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in…
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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12…
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My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close,…
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And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then…
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As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as…
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First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.
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From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from…
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I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit…
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I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact…
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I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by…
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I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had…
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an…
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I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say…
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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…
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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