"I think that teaching coaches are the norm now."

-- Oscar Robertson

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“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.”
“Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.”
“Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.”
“As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
“No. It was because it was the first time I made love to anyone. You can call me a liar or anything else, but do not doubt me on this. And I swear to you that you were the first, and you will be the last. ~Wraith”
“A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be”
“I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are ***** and the people who are not.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die [and] The Barbarous Coast”, New York : Knopf
“People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!”

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