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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

Laurie Graham

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Dean Smith

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Derek Jeter

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Debi Thomas

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

Vijender Singh

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

Grant Hill

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

Margaret Geller

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Mike Piazza

I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.

Troy Polamalu

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

Alexis Arguello

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

Bonnie Blair

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

Donovan Bailey

As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.

Dominique Dawes

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

Dwight Gooden

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

Earl Campbell

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Frank Shorter

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

George Foreman

There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the next quad. I'm among good company.

Gracie Gold