American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.
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STEVE SCHIRRIPA You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you. STEVE FORBERT And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of... STEVE WYNN Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business mo... STEVE BLANK I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this com... STEVE WYNN It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion... STEVE WYNN I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie... STEVE ANTIN Everyone likes a burger now and then, and that's absolutely fine. STEVE EASTERBROOK People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into troub... STEVE MADDEN The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing num... STEVE FORBES That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driv... STEVE ERICKSON No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chine... STEVE FORBES Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts. STEVE CROPPER I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them o... STEVE MARTIN I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th... STEVE MARTIN As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar p... STEVE EARLE Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!. STEVE MARTIN When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any o... STEVE CARELL We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did ou... STEVE BROWN A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Br... STEVE TRUGLIA A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. STEVE TRUGLIA Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re... STEVE KING Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Sax... STEVE LACY The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring. STEVE FOSSETT I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. STEVE GUTTENBERG I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't ... STEVE LARGENT We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this... STEVE JOBS I am a self-made brat. STEVE WYNN We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our arti... STEVE VAI I don't have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I'm too busy loving the lovers. STEVE MARABOLI In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn... STEVE BALLMER I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ... STEVE-O There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neithe... STEVE CHABOT The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than yo... STEVE YOUNG