"Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to become champion jockey was unswerving. He worked night and day, day and night to do it. You must have tunnel vision to become champion jockey: you must almost block everything else out, and he did that perfectly."

-- Steve Cauthen

#Determination Quotes #Block Quotes #Night Quotes

“The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.”
“I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.”
“But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.”
“We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.”
“In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.”
“I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!”

Source : "Fictional character: Napoleon Dynamite". "Napoleon Dynamite", www.imdb.com. 2004.
“Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.”

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