"People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game."

-- Nomar Garciaparra

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“As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.”
“I've never done ***** or slept with people for money or anything.”
“[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.”

Source : Vincent Bugliosi (2011). “Divinity of Doubt: The God Question”, p.254, Vanguard Press
“Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.”
“The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.”

Source : Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons
“Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.”
“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.”
“Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.”

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