475. Act like you’ve been there before, especially in the endzone.

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it's not credited, but this is from the great Bear Bryant. his players acted like they'd been in the endzone before. 

51. You won’t always be the strongest or fastest. You can be the toughest.

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a lesson my father taught me well.

Rule #84

Opinions may differ, but if you're my son, you'll be giving the highlights tour.

Rule #85

Art speaks for itself. All it needs from you is an introduction.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak arabic, love music, and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers, and warriors.

hunter s. thompson

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

robert anson heinlein

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It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

- Winston Churchill

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Well, does it take more guts to twice traverse a staircase in a burning building, or to make a one-time leap into a volcano? Damned if I know, Kimosabe. All I know is when you’re making those kind of calls, you’re up in the high country.

- S. H. Graynamore

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