"I was a man who played basketball and after I played basketball and before I played basketball I was going to be a psychologist, whereas most people who play their occupation is their definition - and then when they stop doing who they are, they become nothing."

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Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

John Amaechi

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“Man with frailty is allied by birth.”
“You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.”

Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org
“I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.”
“When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not.”
“Black is a colour of power and strength.”
“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”
“I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes. I don't sign as many autographs as I should and I haven't always been that good with writers.”
“I gravitate toward women.”

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