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Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.

Mike Ditka

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Mike Ditka
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 18
American Football Player
Baseball Player
Businessperson
Football Player
Television Presenter
Carnegie
Pennsylvania
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Iron Mike
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Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
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When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.
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Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.
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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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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.
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I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.
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I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.
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Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.
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Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
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If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.
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Coffee, It's the life blood that fuels the dreams of champions!
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If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
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Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be.
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Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
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Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.
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I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.
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Those players really believe in him.
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Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now.
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