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"My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games."

Society, People, Competition, Country

"If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out."

Athletes, Career, Longevity, Risk

"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."

Life, Want

"We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world."

Integrity, Want, World

"I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport."

Nation, Country, Race, Road

"The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete."

Life,

"I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of."

Family, Love, Work, Music

"We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions."

Travel, Competition

"We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way."

Athletes, Careers, Managers

"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."

Athletes, Competition, Fighting, Will

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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

Mark Twain, American Author

Education, Read

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Education, Tears, Writer

"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fantasy, First, Open

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Reading, Writing

"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fiction

"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Education, History, Time, Biography, Fiction

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Education, Business

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

Jack London, American Novelist

Education, Beauty, Purpose, Now, Reason

"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Day

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Education, Life, Existence, Harmony