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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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Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
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Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.
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Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.
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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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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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Cap Boso? How could I cut a guy with a name like that?
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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'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 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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In life, you get what you tolerate.
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The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.
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