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Remember when you were young and you’d sit around in your pajamas playing video games all Saturday, your blood packed full of sugary cereal goodness and your parents telling you to go outside? ”They’re just a waste of time! Go play baseball!” your father would yell before giving up and heading out to go “fishing” with his friends. Well, here’s your chance to yell back “Nu-uh!”
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With the start of the Olympics just around the corner, we bring you a collection of quotes from people of varying degrees of fame and glory, some sure to make you think.
Prayer alone doesn’t give you courage. You need to make the effort and pray.
– Evander Holyfield, boxer who, among other achievements, unwillingly fed Mike Tyson his ear.
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