"Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously."

-- Lisa Guerrero

#Athlete Quotes #Reticence Quotes

“Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.426, Macmillan
“I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.”
“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”
“I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.”
“One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.”
“For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.”
“If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.”

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