"I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled."

-- Al Davis

#Football Quotes #Passion Quotes #Winning Quotes

“When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.”
“But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.”
“We still wading in the water... Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water. Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father, Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver. Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler, Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar.”
“If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!”
“The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.”

Source : "I'm not an interesting celebrity. I don't snort cocaine or wear women's underwear" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2007.
“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

Source : "The Educated Citizen". Address at Princeton University, March 22, 1954.
“Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually”
“A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.”

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