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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades
Best
Knowledge
Ignorance
Think
Society
Risk
Becoming
Died
Informed
Ever
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
Mariano Rivera
Day
You
Wise
Rain
Smart
Job
Fishing
Quick
Hard
Hard Job
Night
Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
Mariano Rivera
You
Respect
Yourself
People
Be Yourself
Worry
Say
People Say
About
Want
I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.
Mariano Rivera
Thankful
God
Me
Thanks
Nothing
Everything
Given
Ask
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
Communism
Wealth
Books
Out
Rationing
Through
Like
Because
Hands
There is only one legend. That's me.
Roberto Duran
Me
Legend
Only
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.
Roberto Duran
Home
Me
Mother
Once
Out
Bet
Someone
Horse
Bottle
True
Knocked
Town
Yes
Whiskey
Home Town
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
Ruben Blades
City
Born
Area
July
San
Republic
Panama
I'm a positive man.
Mariano Rivera
Positive
Man
Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.
Mariano Rivera
Kid
Since
Little
Little Kid
Ever
Competitive
If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.
Mariano Rivera
Good
You
Emotions
Will
Control
Your
Acts
I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.
Mariano Rivera
World
Think
How
Just
Regular
Regular Season
Series
Season
World Series
Playoffs
My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
Mariano Rivera
Family
Me
Respect
Matter
Father
Strict
Uncle
Everybody
Someone
Like
Always
Up
Taught
Grew
Who
I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.
Mariano Rivera
You
Simple
Something
Guy
Know
Look
Going
Just
Happens
I don't think any professional accepts defeat.
Mariano Rivera
Defeat
Think
Accepts
Any
Professional
Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.
Mariano Rivera
God
Will
Starts
Everything
Finish
Career
I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.
Mariano Rivera
Work
God
Time
Bible
Respect
Word
Give
Glory
Just
Want
I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.
Mariano Rivera
Father
Earn
Everything
Kids
Give
Am
His
Wants
Who
My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.
Mariano Rivera
You
Man
Father
Will
Nothing
Sick
Kind
Eat
Give
He
Bucks
Because
Still
Help
Zero
Need
I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me.
Mariano Rivera
Time
Me
Somebody
Take
Talk
Always
Wants
Who
I don't feel invincible because I'm human.
Mariano Rivera
Invincible
Feel
Because
Human
You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.
Mariano Rivera
Best
You
Throw
Nobody
Force
Make
Sure
Spots
Hit
Trying
Pitch
Just
Your
I don't want to pitch forever.
Mariano Rivera
Forever
Pitch
Want
I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran
Time
Me
You
Too Much
Big
Think
Floyd Mayweather
Too
Back
Says
Laugh
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Beat
He
Name
Talk
Era
Same
Us
Much
Floyd
I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.
Roberto Duran
Crazy
Man
Old
Become
Ring
Because
Bed
Am
Die
Going
Old Man
I'm not God - but I am something similar.
Roberto Duran
God
Similar
Something
Am
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