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Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be.

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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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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Cap Boso? How could I cut a guy with a name like that?
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You got to sue the offensive line for non-support
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I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.
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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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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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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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Coffee, It's the life blood that fuels the dreams of champions!
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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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There are teams that are fair-haired, and those that aren't so fair-haired. Some teams are named Smith, some Grabowski. We're Grabowskis!
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Success is not permanent & failure is not fatal.
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The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.
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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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Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
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I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.
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So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.
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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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Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.
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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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If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.
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