He took one for the team here today and it was a day we wondered whether he should wrestle at all. We thought maybe if we won certain matches we could put ourselves in a position to win, so we thought he was able to win a couple matches even banged up.


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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER
There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER
Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
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The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
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To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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