"I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway."

-- Deion Sanders

#Detroit Quotes #Scared Quotes

“If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”
“I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.”
“Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.”
“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.”
“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”

Source : Bill Simmons (2009). “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy”, p.44, ESPN
“I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.”
“It was my dadâ€™s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because itâ€™s right, I use music in that light.”
“The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.”

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