"My vision of being a professional, as opposed to being a football player before, has completely changed. Being a pro is doing everything right all the time. It sounds cliche, but if you apply that to strength training, if you apply that to a lot of body work, if you apply that to making good decisions, all the work I did on myself and all the time I spent with therapists and doctors and family, that was my mantra: "Do it right all the time." It started to build momentum, and it started to build up steam. Once I got the opportunity to come back and play, I just kept using that and it helped."

-- Richie Incognito

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“At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.”
“Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.”

Source : "Oxford cut early dash to set Light Blues up for the chop", www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2006.
“15 or 20 years ago it would not have been possible for me to come out. Back then, people still had such narrow views, but today many of them are more liberal. Being gay is no longer a taboo in many parts of society. That has affected sports, even boxing.”

Source : "'I Couldn't Accept Being Gay Because I Was too Afraid'". Interview with Lukas Eberle, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2012.
“At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.”
“Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings.”
“I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.”

Source : "Ann Dowd's One-Woman Oscar-Nomination Campaign". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 12, 2013.
“The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear”
“I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.”

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