Mark Zupan Quotes

#1. I dream about running all the time.

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#2. Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

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#3. Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.

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#4. A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

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#5. I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

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#6. Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

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#7. For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.'

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#8. I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

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#9. For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

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#10. The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.'

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#11. String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

Michio Kaku

#12. I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

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#13. With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

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#14. Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

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#15. There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.

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#16. The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.'
Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.
Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man.
Is that any way to talk to me?'
It's the way I talk to whores.

Milan Kundera

#17. I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?

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#18. I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.

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#19. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.

Robert Penn Warren

#20. I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

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#21. Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

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#22. If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

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#23. We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

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#24. She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

Gabrielle Zevin

#25. Cats are useless.

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#26. Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

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#27. If you have nothing in common with the person you are dating and his parents hate you and your friends hate him, this is not romantic; it's a bad idea.

Amy E. Spiegel

#28. People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

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#29. Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

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