Earl Blaik famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
-- Earl Blaik

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The champion makes his own luck.
-- Earl Blaik

#Champion #Luck
Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
-- Earl Blaik

#Sports #Athlete #Golf
There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.
-- Earl Blaik

#Sports #Differences #Champion
The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.
-- Earl Blaik

#Fun #Sacrifice #Essence
You don't develop good teeth by eating mush.
-- Earl Blaik

#Teeth #Eating

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.
The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

Earl Blaik famous quotes

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