"I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be."

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Miguel Indurain

#Winning Quotes #Trying Quotes

“My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC and our neighbor, who was playing Banquo, winked at me during the curtain call. I remember thinking "he can SEE ME?!" I was hooked from then. I wanted to be part of the place where you can escape the world, and also wink at it.”
“I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.”
“When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard, and the third one just to absorb. In my case, I never showed up to the latter class, taught by Robert Gunning, on Several Complex Variables. Several Complex Variables (Cn) was starting to get vary fashionable then, but I decided to specialize in n=1/2.”
“But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.”
“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”
“That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.”
“My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.”
“We live a dying dream / If you know what I mean”

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