"Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off."

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Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

La'el Collins

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“If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.”
“My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.”
“I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.”

Source : James Croll (1875). “Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate”, p.4
“Who are we to tell Lonzo Ball how to raise his kids. He's very entertaining and you've got to remember, guys, weren't we saying the same things about Richard Williams and Earl Woods? And how did their kids turn out? This works for the Ball family. He's a strong father figure. His kids love him and respect him, so what's everyone complaining about?”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.”
“Going to LSU was the right move for me. It taught me to be independent.”
“Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.”

Source : "The World of the Hero". Book by P. L. Travers, 1976.

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