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When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

Emil Zatopek

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Emil Zatopek
Age: 78 †
Born: 1922
Born: September 19
Died: 2000
Died: November 21
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