Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I've got to win every race.
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I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
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When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.
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Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
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Born to lose. Live to win.
