Paul Coffey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
You always catch the wrong players.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

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