"If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out."

-- Alberto Juantorena

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“We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.”
“My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 11, 2003.
“Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.”
“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”

Source : "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)
“It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.”

Source : Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”
“The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!”
“Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1960). “On the Beach”

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