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I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before?
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If you don't take the shot...you'll never know whether it would have gone in or not.
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The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most.
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Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.
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If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?"
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On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.
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It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.
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We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What .
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You can handle anything anybody throws at you,
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He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about. Juan something? No, no. Juantarena. Alberto Juantarena. His father said it was like watching a god run. And his father, the old fool, wasn't even Cuban, he was Dominican. The only Dominican who wanted to talk about track stars instead of baseball.
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The two of them shook hands the regular way. The old-school way.
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A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.
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But that is the funny thing about dreams...Just when you are sure you have a good one, an even better one comes along.
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Alice in Wonderland
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I never look for help when I'm the one who loaded the bases.
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football,
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It's a foul if he calls a foul.
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You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.
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But maybe you could get better at missing things--and people--with enough practice.
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Nick said. "Failing at school, failing at baseball..." The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn't stop if he'd tried: "... failing at being your son." For the second time that day, Nick ran."
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It doesn't matter how old or young you are: The truth will always catch up with you eventually...Best thing is to own the truth from the start, whether you like it or not.
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Robinson
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You are what your record says you are.
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It was the worst kind of fear there was in sports, the kind where you didn't give yourself a chance to do something right--even something great--because you were terrified you might do something wrong.
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For this one night, the less he cared, the more he made.
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ten-thirty in the morning, being free,
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What had him smiling was that Chris Conlan had called him his best friend.
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Nick wasn't sure what he thought about
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The coach who yells at refs? I'm never gonna be that guy.
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Pedro had two private places he liked best, places where he was completely happy to be alone with a basketball, places where he did his
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i.mpossible.
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