"Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to that of a gallant challenger. Australians love a 'battler', an underdog who is fighting the top dog, although their veneration for him is likely to pass if he comes out from under."

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Source : Donald Horne (1966). “The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties”

Donald Horne

#Sports Quotes #Dog Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.”
“In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.”
“My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.”
“Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.”

Source : "Denkrede auf Jean Paul Friedr. Richter". Book by Ludwig Borne, 1826.
“Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind”
“Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake”
“God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.”
“... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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