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“If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.”
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“Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.”
Source : "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013. 
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“No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.”
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“A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.”
Source : Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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“If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.”
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“Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.”
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“Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.”
