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"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."

Home, Country, Now, Years

"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."

Attention,

"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me."

Home, Being, Childhood, Principles

"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

Skill, American, Soccer

"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"

Man, Men, Leader, Character, America

"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."

Basketball, Blood, Obligation

"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions."

Talent, Decisions, Preparation

"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."

People, Values, Basketball, Culture

"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."

Car,

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"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys."

Woody Allen, American Director

Car, Being

"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."

David Attenborough, British Journalist

Car, Conscience, Driving, Fact

"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

Car, God, Driving

"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Car, Efficiency

"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car."

Ray Stannard Baker, American Journalist

Car, Men, Time, First

"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."

J. G. Ballard, British Author

Car, Dreams, American, Assassination

"I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico."

Ernie Banks, American Athlete

Car,

"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training."

Roger Bannister, British Athlete

Car, War, School, Training

"Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns."

Michael D. Barnes, American Politician

Car, Waiting

"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."

Matthew Barney, American Artist

Car, Culture