"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

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Source : "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#Soccer Quotes #Player Quotes #Natural Quotes

“The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.”
“Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.”
“Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.”
“Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.”
“To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.”
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.98, Penguin
“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.”

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