"Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society."

-- Roone Arledge

#Sports Quotes #Play Quotes #Debt Quotes

“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”

Source : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.114
“Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy”
“I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.”
“You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.”
“Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.”
“Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.”
“I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.”
“The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.”

Source : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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