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» For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

» Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

» A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

» Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

» One chance is all you need.

» Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

» If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

» We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

» Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

» The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

» If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

» I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

» Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

» The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

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