"In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world."

-- Larry Bird

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“I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.”
“with some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal ...”
“When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.”
“Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, NYU Press
“Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.”
“I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.”
“I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.”
“When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.”

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