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    I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.

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I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be read more

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

by Jane Asher Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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But my big thing was always the blues.

But my big thing was always the blues.

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It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It read more

It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.

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You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.

You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.

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You feel bad about it for a while. But the way the schedule is, you have to move on quickly read more

You feel bad about it for a while. But the way the schedule is, you have to move on quickly because there is another game in two days.

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There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but read more

There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but universities are one of the worst for insisting on forms. There is absolutely no sense to it. They insist on putting all the information into a little box.

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We don't have a gaming environment anywhere where you can have those restrictions.

We don't have a gaming environment anywhere where you can have those restrictions.

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They haven't notified us yet.

They haven't notified us yet.

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You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and read more

You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and we haven't played them in nine years [in the postseason]. So it's really irrelevant, I think.

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