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“With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.”
Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.15, iUniverse
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“Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.”
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“The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”
Source : John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.14, Vintage
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“The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.”
Source : Harrison, Benjamin (1901). “Views of an ex-president”, p.336, Best Books on
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“I'll never be the sort of author who sells that many copies. You'll never see a book of mine being sold on a table at Costco, between the extra-large jorts and a barrel of salsa. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll be indie till I die.”
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“But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.”
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“There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.”
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“Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!”
