"We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity."

“It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.”

“I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.”

“I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.”

“Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.”

“Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.”

“For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.”

Source : John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”

“Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.”

Source : Marina Warner, Sophie Herxheimer, Gilbert Adair (1994). “Wonder Tales”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand