"If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing"

-- John Wooden

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“I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.”
“I didn't really think a lot about religion, but I didn't really think a lot against it, either. I was one of those people who didn't go to church, but when I got in trouble I kinda pleaded with God - whoever that was.”
“One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.”
“What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
“We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.”
“I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.”

Source : "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.”

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