Richard Petty Quotes
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
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I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.
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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
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I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.
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Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
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I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.
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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.
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You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.
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I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.
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The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.
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I said to myself every day: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.
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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
