"He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game."

-- Adolph Rupp

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“My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.”
“What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy clichÃ©.”
“If he didn't want to be mauled, he shouldn't have put himself right in my path.”
“I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.
“Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.”
“When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.”
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.”

Source : Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing
“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.”

Source : Doyle Brunson (2013). “According to Doyle”, p.84, Cardoza Publishing

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