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“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.”

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Author:Lance B. Wickman
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“There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.”

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Author:Tommy Lasorda
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“Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.”

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Author:Ray Lewis
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“I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.”

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Author:Susan Orlean
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“One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.”

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Book:The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph
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“Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We also tend to quit without warning. Refuse to go to school,drop out,quit jobs,leave lovers,move,lose all our money. We get sick of being impressive. Rather,we tire of having to seem impressive. As a rule,most of us never really believed we were any good in the first place.”

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Author:Marya Hornbacher
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“Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.”

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Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

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Book:Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
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“If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.”

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Author:Carl Lewis
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“A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”

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Author:Mary Lou Retton
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“My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.”

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Book:Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field
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“The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.”

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Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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“Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.”

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Author:Paavo Nurmi
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“Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.”

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Author:Doris Brown Heritage
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“There is no such thing as life in-between.”

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Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players
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