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“You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

— Larry Bird
Basketball player
Sam Smith (February 17, 1998) "Making a Run From the Border", Chicago Tribune, p. 5.
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