Carl Brashear famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
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Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.
-- Carl Brashear -
I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream.
-- Carl Brashear
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
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The absurd is sin without God.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
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When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.
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Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.
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When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.
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Get back up when you're knocked down.
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