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People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Mike Ditka
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Mike Ditka
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 18
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Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
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I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.
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Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
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