"I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans."

-- Steve Alford

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“I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and havenâ€™t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories arenâ€™t worth a ***** thing.”
“Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.565, Random House
“My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.”
“Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?”
“If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.”
“In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.”
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

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