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• Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Wrestling, Singh, Physique

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• If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you.

  Dan Gable

  Hard Work, Wrestling, Years

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• You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Fall, People

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• I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

  Elliott Smith

  Letting Go, Hard Times, Let It Go

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• Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Hurt, Healing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 30, 2016

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• He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Giving, Hobbies

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

  Rushworth Kidder

  Ideas, Pickles, Endure

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• Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Ideas, Shapes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2431, Delphi Classics

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• Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.

  Mickey Rourke

  Trust, Real, Men

  "Mickey Rourke Talks Immortals, Life, and Sin City". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. October 31, 2011.

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• And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

  Tom Petty

  Wind, Paper, Changed

  Song: To Find A Friend, Album: Wildflowers, 1994

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• I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Children, War, Drinking

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

  Chip Heath

  Knowledge, Imagine, Knows

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.20, Random House

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• Everything in this world happens for a reason yet nothing in this world comes free. Hard work, endurance, determination, persistence, and strong will are key, But without faith you can only go so far before you lose yourself We are all hearts, minds, bodies, and souls searching for something - you are not the only one, So search, and you shall discover, look, and you shall certainly find, read and you shall only behold that the most logical of all answers was always right there before your very eyes'

  Moez Masoud

  Wisdom, Strong, Determination

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• Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Easy

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• I die hard but am not afraid to go.

  George Washington

  Dying, Last Words, Not Afraid

  "Life of Washington". Book by Washington Irving, 1859.

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• Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.

  Michael Keaton

  Death, Dying, Way

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• The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Player, Nfl

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. January 30, 2011.

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• I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Hard Work, Men

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

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• I've worked hard all my life.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Inspirational Life, Hard Life

  "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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• When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Dream, Hard Work

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• It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

  Steven Bradbury

  Sports, Thinking, Race

  "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

  Patrick Dodson

  Leadership, Elusiveness, Impossible

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