"So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it."

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Source : "Ryan Seacrest: Lord of Hosts" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2009.

Ralph Boston

#Team Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.”
“Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.80, Oneworld Publications
“From the beginning, the internet has been dominated by white men. So if you wanted to be a part of the internet and you weren't a white man, you had to adapt yourself to their world.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.”
“The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.”
“It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.”
“The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.”
“Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.”

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