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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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What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
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There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
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I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.
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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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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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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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If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
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Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much.
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I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
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Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
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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'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 don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.
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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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