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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.


Abe Lemons
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The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.


Lefty Gomez
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
Major Taylor
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A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Robert Baden-Powell
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There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.
John Sherman Cooper
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In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.
Pierre de Coubertin
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As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
Eliot Spitzer
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But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.
Piper Perabo
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
Samuel Barnett
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So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.
Trevor Nunn
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?


Henry David Thoreau
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Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Meagan Good
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Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.
John Garamendi
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Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
Arnold Palmer
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Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.
Raymond Floyd
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.


Mark Twain
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I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.


Alexander Lebedev
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I've made a life and career as a professional musician.


Melissa Auf der Maur
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If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
Dave Van Ronk
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We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.
Rick Wagoner
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