The most successful coaches on any level teach the fundamentals.
John McKayAgreement exists in disagreement
LucanusI've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
Brian CloughFaith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George SandLose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Havelock EllisHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao TzuGoodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul BellowManners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney SmithIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon JohnsonMen often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander HamiltonHe had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Jonathan SwiftThe most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
Heywood BrounLook out, gentlemen, the schoolmaster is abroad!
Lord BroughamMy team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
ShakiraScience knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt BrechtFor many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
Ian BothamCompromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.
Lord Edward CecilWe're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
Ed VargoA peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John BergerMany brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
HoraceAmerica is a young country with an old mentality.
George SantayanaDullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter BagehotFit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room]
John BarrowmanThere is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
James Russell LowellIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James MadisonA place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
Carl AndreI repeat, I made a good decision. Anyone who understands the rules of football must see that. In all this business, I have never doubted for a moment that I was right. Not for one moment. [On disallowing Campbell's goal]
Urs MeierWomen, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Gary KasparovDeath, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord ByronHe's a fallen hero, a very gentle man under that exterior. He's lived in an environment always ravaged by war and had to be realistic. He wants to use the ring against the enemy instead of destroying it. He doesn't understand the complexities this piece of metal can have on human beings. (on Boromir, Lord of the Rings)
Sean BeanI have a bunch of half-naked women. He has a bunch of men. I know who I'd rather have dinner with me. [on his supporters]
Andy RoddickMentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
John C CrosbyA nymphomaniac is a women as obsessed with sex as the average man
Mignon McLaughlinThe starting point of all achievement is desire
Napoleon HillThe world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster DullesIt sounds to me like a steel construction site. [on sustainable development]
Bella FreudChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawCan anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? (In Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women 1792)
Vicesimus KnoxModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text
Patrick BuchananThe political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.
Dick ThornburghWork is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George SandMen and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Bill CosbyTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda MeirTo be part of this band and be such a success is phenomenal and you never fully get used to it.
Will ChampionI know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. 'Think about the future, what's next!' But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
Cassandra WilsonThat some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due
Charles InglisOn rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma GoldmanNever get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?"
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