"During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times."

-- Bobby Knight

#Team Quotes #Winning Quotes #Texas Quotes

“Even kids that look very thin are not fit. When they do have a little physical exercise, they're worn out. The most exercise they get is walking from class to class.”
“Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.”

Source : "Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship".
“A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.”
“Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?”

Source : Lauren Willig (2012). “The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.51, Penguin
“Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.”
“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
“What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.”
“Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.”

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