"Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you."

-- Ed Belfour

#Team Quotes #Hockey Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.”

Source : Said at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition. The Globe, p. 1, August 29, 1906.
“I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.”

Source : "Sepp Blatter admits Qatar World Cup error and backs winter switch" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2013.
“If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.”

Source : Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.103, Bottom of the Hill
“I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.”
“Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is a fire: do not let your heart be cold, but burn with faith and love. Your Lord is light: do not walk in darkness of mind, without reasoning or understanding, or without faith. Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.”
“How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.”
“School should be the best party in town.”
“To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.81, Open Road Media

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